15 Mariana Islands species out of 17 reported | 16 Indo-Pacific species | 1 Western Atlantic species
Mariana Islands species are displayed by default. Click on the tags below to view additional species.
Balistapus undulatus
Balistoides conspicillum
Balistoides viridescens
Melichthys niger
Melichthys vidua
Odonus niger
Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus
Pseudobalistes fuscus
Rhinecanthus aculeatus
Rhinecanthus rectangulus
Sufflamen bursa
Sufflamen chrysoptera
Sufflamen fraenatum
Xanthichthys auromarginatus
Xanthichthys caeruleolineatus (CNMI)
Note: the image of Sufflamen fraenatum is a frame grab from a baited remote underwater video (BRUV) obtained in 2015 by Jake Asher of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and Curtin University.
Note: while Xanthichthys caeruleolineatus has been reported from Guam the specimen in the image above was photographed at Uracas, in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Additional triggerfish species reported from the Mariana Islands by Myers and Donaldson (2003):