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Teleostei (teleosts) > Tetraodontiformes (Puffers and filefishes) > Balistidae (Triggerfishes)
Etymology: Abalistes: Greek, a = without + Greek, ballo = to throw (Ref. 45335); filamentosus: Named for the filamentous rays in its caudal fin.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; pelagic-neritic; depth range 61 - 180 m (Ref. 54835). Subtropical

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Indo-West Pacific: Ryukyu Islands to the Northwest Shelf of Australia, and the Timor Sea.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 32.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 54835); 24.3 cm SL (female); max. published weight: 1.4 kg (Ref. 85123)

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Dorsal spines (total): 3; Dorsal soft rays (total): 25 - 27; Anal soft rays: 22 - 25. This species is distinguished by the following characters: D III,25-27; A 22-25; pectoral rays 14-15 (usually 14); body scale rows 33-39; head scale rows 25-32; upper and lower rays of the caudal fin are greatly produced in filaments; cheek with 3 or 4 longitudinal grooves. Colouration: proximal part of spinous dorsal fin is dark brown; body without yellow/pale blue spots or yellow reticulations; ground color of body is dark brown dorsally, mottled with irregular pale markings, then becoming white ventrally; cheek is brown with greenish tinge (Ref. 54835).

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Oviparous, distinct pairing during breeding (Ref. 205).

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Matsuura, K. and T. Yoshino, 2004. A new triggerfish of the genus Abalistes (Tetraodontiformes: Balistidae) from the Western Pacific. Rec. Aust. Mus. 56:189-194. (Ref. 54835)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 11 January 2022

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Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 18.8 - 26.9, mean 23.9 °C (based on 268 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.6250 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.02692 (0.01267 - 0.05719), b=2.92 (2.74 - 3.10), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.4 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low to moderate vulnerability (30 of 100).

Abalistes filamentosus Matsuura & Yoshino, 2004