Halfmoon triggerfish
Sufflamen chrysopterum
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Balistidae
- Genus
- Sufflamen
Where to Find
Found in 55 diving areas across 31 countries and 6 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 9 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 28 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 22 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 7 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 7 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 5 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 14 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 40 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 63 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 6 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 13 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 195 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 9 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 10 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 62 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 26 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 378 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 3 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 19 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 28 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 3 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 10 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 4 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 5 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 3 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 3 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 14 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 17 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 5 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 166 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 8 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 60 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 1 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 26 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 8 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 11 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 42 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 62 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 8 records