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triggerfish

[ UK /tɹˈɪɡəfɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin

How To Use triggerfish In A Sentence

  • The coral sand surrounding coral reefs is believed to be mostly produced by Parrotfish and Triggerfish.
  • In marine areas, species concentrations are highest around coral reefs, where butterflyfishes and angelfishes, wrasses, parrotfishes and triggerfishes are common.
  • Both fish first expand their mouths to draw in water, but the puffer then pumps the water into its stomach, while the triggerfish opens its mouth and pumps the water back out.
  • Here, a gray reef shark swims amid a school of black triggerfish in the waters off Starbuck Island.
  • The coral sand surrounding coral reefs is believed to be mostly produced by Parrotfish and Triggerfish.
  • Their guests returned with 492 blackfin tuna, 465 vermilion snapper, 15 triggerfish, 11 silk snapper and a variety of other fish, including scamp grouper, rockhinds, yellow mouths, pompano, barracuda and a squirrelfish. The Daily News - News
  • A cowfish, a triggerfish, the harlequin Picasso fish, a drifting sponge—all these lives were being lived out, every day, as they always had been. The Shell Collector : Stories
  • At the same site we saw a pair of purple flame gobies, a fantastic blue-ribbon eel, clown triggerfish and a beautifully striped surgeonfish.
  • You get turtles, moray eels and titan triggerfish but not the variety of reef fish in the Red Sea or Indonesia, says John Bantin.
  • Scrawled filefish seem enormous and, of course, the ubiquitous titan and the inappropriately named yellowmargin triggerfish are active everywhere.
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