#2333 · 🐟 fish
Titan Triggerfish
🇳🇱 Blauwvintrekkervis ·Balistoides viridescens
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frank Krasovec · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Michal Honskus · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © François Libert · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © 104623964081378888743 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © François Libert · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Luis P. B. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Gaell Mainguy · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Leonard Low from Australia · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The titan triggerfish , giant triggerfish or moustache triggerfish ( Balistoides viridescens ) is a large species of triggerfish found in lagoons and at reefs to depths of 50 m (160 ft) in most of the Indo-Pacific, though it is absent from Hawaii. With a length of up to 75 centimetres (30 in), it is the largest species of triggerfish in its range (the stone triggerfish, Pseudobalistes naufragium , from the east Pacific is larger).
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,455 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1801 (225 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Titan Triggerfish
- Nederlands
- Blauwvintrekkervis
- scientific name
- Balistoides viridescens
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Tetraodontiformes
- family
- Balistidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,455
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1801 by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Balistidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 123392, Wikidata Q1508315, GBIF 2407133, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.