#2141 · 🐟 fish
Grey Triggerfish
🇳🇱 Grijze Trekkervis ·Balistes capriscus
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what is it?
The grey triggerfish ( Balistes capriscus ) is a ray-finned fish in the triggerfish family. The species is native to shallow parts of the western Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Argentina and also the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and off Angola on the west coast of Africa.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,360 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Grey Triggerfish
- Nederlands
- Grijze Trekkervis
- scientific name
- Balistes capriscus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Tetraodontiformes
- family
- Balistidae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- sightings in NL
- 7
- sightings in Europe
- 693
- sightings worldwide
- 2,360
- GBIF records in NL
- 59
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1789 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Balistidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49606, Wikidata Q1277472, GBIF 2407107, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.