| Starry Triggerfish | |
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| Balistes Phaleratus (syn. Abalistes stellaris) from John Lort Stokes 1846 Discoveries in Australia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Suborder: | Tetraodontoidei |
| Family: | Balistidae |
| Genus: | Abalistes |
| Species: | A. stellatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Abalistes stellatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 |
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The starry triggerfish (Abalistes stellaris), or flat-tailed triggerfish, or chicken fish, is a tropical, harmless, oviparous bottom dweller, characterized by some white spots along the spinal dark band. The tail is dorsoventral and looks very thin, when looked upon in profile. There is a deep groove in front of the eye. The background colour is grey with olivegreen spots. Its mitochondrial DNA has been sequenced by the University of Tokyo, Japan.[1]
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Male adult up to 60 cm
Benthic animals such as crustaceans, crabs, mollusks; bony fish.
Not in the IUCN Red List.