Triggerfish
Balistes vetula
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: NT - Near Threatened - close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Balistidae
- Genus
- Balistes
Where to Find
Found in 54 diving areas across 29 countries and 6 regions.
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 2 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 6 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 19 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 174 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 2 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 1 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 2 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 27 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 13 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 10 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 608 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 481 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 12 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 24 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 26 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 16 records
- María la Gorda, Cuba - 7 records
- Varadero, Cuba - 2 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 38 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 10 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 7 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 1 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 1 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 6 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 13 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 5 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 409 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 334 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 362 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 11 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 10 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 9 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 10 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 9 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 8 records
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - 7 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 615 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 657 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 45 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 50 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 27 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 26 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 3 records
- Utila, Honduras - 50 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 5 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 20 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 16 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 20 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 8 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 6 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records