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Most triggerfish species occur on coral reefs, and when threatened by a predator, triggerfish dart into a hole or crevice on the reef, lock their dorsal spine erect and depress their pelvic bone to wedge themselves into the reef.
Triggerfish swim by undulating the soft dorsal and anal fins, and use their tail fin only when they are in a hurry.
Triggerfishes occur worldwide in tropical and warm temperate waters, generally near shore in relatively shallow water (usually less than 100 m), but adults of some species are regularly found out in the open ocean.
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It is known from depths of 5-50 m and occurs from the Red Sea to South Africa (south to Aliwal Shoal) and islands of the central Pacific Ocean.
The clown trigger It occurs in 5-60 m on coral reefs of the Indo-West Pacific region, from South Africa (south to Aliwal Shoal) to the islands of the central Pacific Ocean.
When chased, this triggerfish ducks into a hole on the reef, but sometimes the hole is not big enough for the fish, and a good bit of the tail is left exposed.
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 DIVE TEMPLE : Alona Beach, Panglao, Bohol, Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The prolific reef fish life includes angelfish, butterflyfish, triggerfish, pufferfish, chromis, anthias, damselfish, wrasse, groupers, batfish, scorpionfish, lionfish, and parrotfish.
The shallow waters have garden eels, moray eels, titans and orangestriped triggerfish, shoals of surgeonfish, moorish idols, bannerfish and jacks, Emperor and Royal Angelfish, and pufferfish.
On a short wall where fish are regularly hand-fed there are small groupers, wrasse, triggerfish, butterflyfish, moray eels, and sea snakes.
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 Fun & Sun Dive Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
In the shallower part are Garden Eels, Nudibranchs, Sea Cucumbers, Cushion Stars, colorful Crinoides, Royal Angelfish, Titan or Orangestriped Triggerfish, Bannerfish, Pufferfish, Trumpetfish, Jacks, Barracudas and Tuna.
A current moving North to South is the best for this dive which permit divers to drift South and finish the dive in the shallow part of the Sanctuary drop-off.
Surrounding all this profusion of fixed life, shoals of fish, Royal Angelfish, Bannerfish, Pufferfish, Trumpetfish, Thousands of Blue Anthias, Damselfish, Snappers, Titan or Orangestriped Triggerfish give movements to the reef while Bluefin Trevallies, Jacks, Barracudas and Tuna may be seen patrolling in the blue surrounding water.
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 Original Artwork: Chris Calle: Orangestriped Triggerfish Swimming
The handsome Orangestriped Triggerfish shares this appetite for polyps and can effortlessly nip off brittle pieces of coral with its powerful teeth and jaws.
When this fish is disturbed, the first of its three stout spines on the dorsal fin locks upright and can be dropped only when the second smaller "trigger" spine, which fits into a groove behind the first, is depressed.
This painting was originally published on the Federated States of Micronesia 50¢ Orangestriped Triggerfish Native Fish stamp issued May 14, 1993.
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 Welcome to Alona Divers Website - Divesite
With a wall and small canyons, plus a tunnel with morays and cardinals, where fish are regularly hand-fed there are small groupers, wrasse, triggerfish, butterflyfish, eels, and sea snakes and at the top of the reef an amazing variety of corals and coral fish.
A good drift dive, the reef is a sandy 45-degree slope with many coral heads, barracudas, triggerfish, groupers, snappers, anemones with clownfish, dogtooth tuna, schools of fusiliers, mackerel, jacks and Napoleon Wrasse.
Steep slope to 40m with grouper, emperor, scorpion and schools of blue-tail trigger fish.
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 AquariumFish.com :: Aquarium Fish Magazine :: The monthly magazine for both novice and expert aquarium hobbyists.
gilberti), orangelined (Archamia fucata; do not confuse this species with the orangestriped, Apogon cyanosoma, which is often sold in the aquarium trade as the orangelined) and flbelted (Archamia zosterophora) cardinalfishes.
A number of cardinalfish will associate with sea anemones, with several common western Pacific species being well known for this.
The orangestriped cardinalfish (Apogon cyanosoma) and the Moluccan cardinalfish (A.
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 Balicasag Island - Southeast/west Wall | traveldeep.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Shoals of fusiliers, surgeonfish, jacks, snappers, wrasse, batfish, Moorish Idols, anthias, chromis, damselfish, pennantfish and bannerfish frequent the reef edge and shallower parts of the wall.
There are many angelfish, butterflyfish, Titan and Orangestriped Triggerfish, Vlaming's Unicornfish, trumpetfish, cornetfish, snappers, pufferfish and some Crown-of-Thorns Starfish.
At the eastern end, where this dive joins Rudy's Rock, there is a huge shoal of Big Eye Trevally that you can get in amongst.
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 The City of Cairo
On this 10-day trip, I observed more fish than I remember seeing in almost 20 years of diving.
There were albino-looking peppered moray eels, electric and blue-spotted ribbontail stingrays, triggerfish including the Arabian, blue, orangestriped, redtooth, yellowmargin, the colorful Picasso and the aggressive, predominantly yellow Titan triggerfish.
Clearfin and turkeyfish were seen on most dives.
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 About the East Coast Fish-Watch Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Orangestriped triggerfish, Balistapus undulatus (Mungo Park, 1797); spotted at Aliwal Shoal.
Threespot flounder, Samariscus triocellatus Woods, 1966; picked up by John Dives of the KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service on our fish collecting dive at Aliwal Shoal.
Indian triggerfish, Melichthys indicus Randall and Klausewitz, 1973; collected at Aliwal Shoal.
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The east side is shallow and sheltered, with canyons, caves and crevices.
There are plenty of fish, including batfish, snappers, sweetlips, jacks, trumpetfish, cornetfish, cardinalfish, soldierfish, squirrelfish, hawkfish, fusiliers, Titan and Orangestriped Triggerfish, Map, Star and Bandit Pufferfish, anthias, chromis, damselfish, sergeant majors and anemones with clownfish, as well as pelagic species.
Usually calm, but it can get rough with a strong current.
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