Gray Triggerfish: Balistes capriscus

Appearance:

• Entirely olive-gray
• Dorsal and anal fins marbled
• Caudal fin lobes elongate in large adults
• One or more enlarged scales behind gill opening
• 26 to 29 dorsal fin rays
• 23 to 26 anal fin rays
• Young: large darker saddle on back (these saddles sometime persist in adults)
• Blue spots and short blue lines in dorsal fin and on upper half of body, becoming white below anal fin
• Upper rim of eye blue
  

Habitat:

Hardbottom, reefs, ledges

Behavior:

State Record:

12lb 7oz

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