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Updated 7/6/2025

Family Balistidae

INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII

EAST ATLANTIC

Rhinecanthus aculeatus

Makapu'u, Oahu, 25 feet

 



Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 4 feet

Wakatobi, Indonesia, 5 feet

 

Juvenile, Palau, 6 feet


Juvenile, Palau, 6 feet
   
   

 LAGOON TRIGGERFISH    humuhumunukunukuapa'a    Murasame-mongara

Uncommon among sand patches on shallow reefs.  Feeds upon invertebrates and algae.  Attains 12 inches.  Red Sea to Japan, Hawai'i, and the Marquesas; East Atlantic from Senegal to South Africa.