How To Use Triggerfish In A Sentence
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Oceana's scientists attribute the Mediterranean invasion partly to the overfishing of jellyfish predators there, including moonfish, triggerfish, and leatherback turtles, which are often caught accidentally as bycatch.
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Larger titan triggerfish crunched their way through dead coral in search of some sustenance.
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A baby Indian triggerfish is mothered along by a group of dusky batfish; beyond them, large rocks host parrotfish and wrasse, then drop off abruptly, bottoming at around 50m.
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In the shallower water gather surgeonfish, triggerfish, scorpionfish, goatfish and giant clams.
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Filefishes (Family Monacanthidae), triggerfishes (Family Balistidae), trunkfishes (Family Ostraciidae), and porcupinefishes (Family Diodontidae), have evolved interesting solutions to this problem.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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Amid the ever-present clouds of little midnight-blue triggerfish and brilliant damselfish, and closely observed by a Napoleion wrasse, we rose from 20m in a gentle upward spiral until we ran out of reef.
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Pufferfishes, filefishes, triggerfishes, and butterflyfishes (Family Chaetodonidae) actively consume individual coral polyps.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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Filefishes and triggerfishes have spines on their backs that they can extend to make themselves more difficult to swallow.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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Among the dangerous creatures were moray eels, ‘and triggerfish nibbled at her feet‘.
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Titan triggerfish are armed with powerful jaws and teeth suitable for chewing bony corals divers should steer clear of them!
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A Titan Triggerfish chomps at some hard coral, as other fish gawp at us curiously or dart away.
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In marine areas, species concentrations are highest around coral reefs, where butterflyfishes and angelfishes, wrasses, parrotfishes and triggerfishes are common.
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There was a massive cloud of spawning jellyfish (non-stinging, luckily), plus a constant swirling tornado of red-toothed triggerfish and a remora that fell in love with us and wouldn't leave us alone.
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Just as later he would return to listing woodpeckers, hawks and wild flowers in Carolina, he is obsessed by Whitman-like lists of fauna: lookdowns, triggerfish, halfbeaks, hairtails, blackbacks, mossbunkers and quahogs.
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I switched off the flash, folded down the arm and applied the shutter-lock with unexposed film left in the camera, just as a large triggerfish appeared in front of me.
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An ocean sunfish, which can weigh up to 1.5 tons, has left the Atlantic for England's west coast, while grey triggerfish are moving from the Bay of Biscay to UK waters.
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Finally, some boxfishes and triggerfishes use an equally novel technique for capturing prey.
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The oceanic triggerfish is a species found only in the tropical Red Sea.
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Closer to the reef and in among a necklace of smaller granite boulders are all the usual reef fish - butterflyfish, damselfish, Moorish idols, triggerfish, angelfish, groupers and lionfish.
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Fishy attractions include huge scorpionfish, lionfish, lots of lizardfish, triggerfish and surgeons and many different wrasse varieties.
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In marine areas, species concentrations are highest around coral reefs, where butterflyfishes and angelfishes, wrasses, parrotfishes and triggerfishes are common.
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Both fish first expand their mouths to draw in water, but the puffer then pumps the water into its stomach, while the triggerfish opens its mouth and pumps the water back out.
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Here, a gray reef shark swims amid a school of black triggerfish in the waters off Starbuck Island.
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The coral sand surrounding coral reefs is believed to be mostly produced by Parrotfish and Triggerfish.
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Their guests returned with 492 blackfin tuna, 465 vermilion snapper, 15 triggerfish, 11 silk snapper and a variety of other fish, including scamp grouper, rockhinds, yellow mouths, pompano, barracuda and a squirrelfish.
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A cowfish, a triggerfish, the harlequin Picasso fish, a drifting sponge—all these lives were being lived out, every day, as they always had been.
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At the same site we saw a pair of purple flame gobies, a fantastic blue-ribbon eel, clown triggerfish and a beautifully striped surgeonfish.
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You get turtles, moray eels and titan triggerfish but not the variety of reef fish in the Red Sea or Indonesia, says John Bantin.
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Scrawled filefish seem enormous and, of course, the ubiquitous titan and the inappropriately named yellowmargin triggerfish are active everywhere.
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The coral sand surrounding coral reefs is believed to be mostly produced by Parrotfish and Triggerfish.
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A mile off the Ft. Lauderdale coast, mom and daughter dropped their baited lines, hoping for a nibble from grouper or triggerfish to take home for dinner.
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This was my cue to begin a slow approach with the camera, all the time being eyed warily by the triggerfish.
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Just as later he would return to listing woodpeckers, hawks and wild flowers in Carolina, he is obsessed by Whitman-like lists of fauna: lookdowns, triggerfish, halfbeaks, hairtails, blackbacks, mossbunkers and quahogs.
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In the shallower water gather surgeonfish, triggerfish, scorpionfish, goatfish and giant clams.
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Pufferfishes, filefishes, triggerfishes, and butterflyfishes (Family Chaetodonidae) actively consume individual coral polyps.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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In marine areas, species concentrations are highest around coral reefs, where butterflyfishes and angelfishes, wrasses, parrotfishes and triggerfishes are common.
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Swarms of anthias, wrasse, emerald green triggerfish, damselfish, clownfish and butterflyfish shrouded it but never strayed far into the intermediate zone patrolled by trevally, tuna, jacks and fusiliers.
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We watched a yellow margined triggerfish as it scoured the seabed below.
