Sufflamen

Sufflamen
Sufflamen chrysopterum
Sufflamen fraenatum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Balistidae
Genus:	Sufflamen D. S. Jordan, 1916

Sufflamen is a genus of triggerfishes that is native to the reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Species

There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:[1]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Sufflamen albicaudatum Rüppell, 1829	Bluethroat triggerfish	western Indian Ocean
	Sufflamen bursa Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801	Boomerang triggerfish	Indo-Pacific.
	Sufflamen chrysopterum Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801	Halfmoon triggerfish	tropical Indo-West Pacific area.
	Sufflamen fraenatum Latreille, 1804	Masked triggerfish	the Indian Ocean coast of Africa and throughout much of the Indo-Pacific region from Indonesia to the Hawaiian Islands.
	Sufflamen verres C. H. Gilbert & Starks, 1904	Orangeside triggerfish	the Pacific coast of Central and South America from Mexico to Ecuador.

References

1. Matsuura, Keiichi (2015). "Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: A review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014". Ichthyological Research. 62: 72–113. doi:10.1007/s10228-014-0444-5. S2CID 15223867.