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View Mode View All Pictures Species Balistoides viridescens (Bloch & Schneider 1801)    Balistoides viridescens was originally described as Balistes viridescens by Bloch & Schneider in 1801. It belongs to the family Balistidae. It is commonly known as Titan triggerfish but has many other common names such as in Australia as Titan triggerfish, in Japan as Gomamongara, in Papua New Guinea as Bluefinned triggerfish, in Philippines as Ampapagot, in South Africa as Gestippelde snellervis, in South Africa as Titan triggerfish. more common names It is found in Salt water and its distribution is Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Wake Atoll and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to New South Wales (Australia) and Tonga.   Species Species   Higher Taxa Higher Taxa   Original Original   Subspecies Subspecies   Current Current   General General   Name History Name History   Related Pages Related Pages   Species of this Genus Species of this Genus   Species   viridescens AuthorWI   Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] AuthorNI   Bloch & Schneider Qualification   --- Year   1801 Status   Valid Class   Osteichthyes Osteichthyes Order   Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontiformes Family   Balistidae Subfamily   --- --- Genus   Balistoides Subgenus   --- Class   Osteichthyes Order   Tetraodontiformes Family   Balistidae Genus   Balistoides Original Name   Balistes         Taxon Name   viridescens Original Combination   Balistes viridescens Original Genus   Balistes Original Genus Species   Balistes viridescens OriginalSubGenus   Balistes Original Author   Bloch & Schneider Original AuthorWI   Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] Original Qualification   --- Original Year   1801 Original Family   Balistidae Original SubFamily   --- Original Level   species Type Locality   [No locality stated] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Type Catalogue   Type catalog: Beaunier et al. 2008:299 [ref. 28887]. Primary Code   --- Page   477 SubSpecies AuthorWI   --- Qualification SS   --- Original QualificationSS   --- Current Subspecies AuthorWI   --- Current Genus Species   Balistoides viridescens Current Species   viridescens Current Genus   Balistoides Current AuthorWI   Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] Current AuthorNI   Bloch & Schneider Current Year   1801 Current Family   Balistidae Current Subfamily   --- --- Habitat reef-associated         Water Salt water Habitat Notes Titan triggerfish (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Depth Range From 1 to 50 meters.     Distribution Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Wake Atoll and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to New South Wales (Australia) and Tonga. Current Summary   Valid as Balistoides viridescens  (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Balistidae.   Name History   • Valid as Balistoides viridescens  (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:290 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:275 [ref. 29757], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:357 [ref. 6441], Smith & Heemstra 1986:878 [ref. 5714], Allen & Swainston 1988:150 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:67 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:453 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:73 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:238 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:390 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:453 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:281 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:578 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:30 [ref. 25829], Matsuura in Randall & Lim 2000:647 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1398 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:455 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:22 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:124 [ref. 25868], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:105 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:47 [ref. 25847], Matsuura 2001:3921 [ref. 26315], Nakabo 2002:1398 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:64 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S123 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:649 [ref. 27495], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:219 [ref. 27510], Lobel & Lobel 2004:77 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:31 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:127 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3331 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:442 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:622 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1871 [ref. 29098], Fricke et al. 2009:115 [ref. 30213], Matsuura 2009:326 [ref. 31171], Motomura et al. 2010:232 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1061 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:272 [ref. 32706]). 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