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{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{redirect|Humuhumunukunukuapua'a|''Rhinecanthus aculeatus'', the similar triggerfish|Lagoon triggerfish|the song|My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii}} {{Speciesbox | name = {{Lang|haw|Reef triggerfish|italic=no}} | image = FMIB 42657 Balistapus rectangulus (Bloch & Schneider) Humuhumu Nukunuku Apua'a.jpeg | image_caption = 1852 illustration from the ''fishes of Hawaii'' | image2 = Reef Triggerfish 1.JPG | image2_caption = | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 9 February 2023">{{cite iucn |author=Matsuura, K. |date=2022 |title=''Rhinecanthus rectangulus'' |volume=2022 |page=e.T193713A2264564|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T193713A2264564.en |access-date=9 February 2023}}</ref> | taxon = Rhinecanthus rectangulus | authority = ([[Marcus Elieser Bloch|Bloch]] & [[Johann Gottlob Schneider|J. G. Schneider]], 1801) }} The '''reef triggerfish''' ('''''Rhinecanthus rectangulus'''''), also known as the '''rectangular triggerfish''', '''wedgetail triggerfish'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://reefguide.org/hawaii/wedgetailtriggerfish.html |title=Wedgetail Triggerfish - Rhinecanthus rectangulus - Triggerfishes - Reef Triggerfish - Hawaii Reefs |website=reefguide.org |access-date=2020-03-01}}</ref> or by its [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] name '''{{Lang|haw|humuhumunukunukuāpua{{okina}}a|italic=no}}''' ({{IPA|haw|ˈhumuˈhumuˈnukuˈnukuˈwaːpuˈwɐʔə|pron}}, meaning 'triggerfish with a snout like a pig',<ref>[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/humuhumunukunukuapua%27a humuhumunukunukuapua'a]. humuhumunukunukuapua'a. (n.d.) American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. (2011). Accessed on The Free Dictionary. Retrieved on 2015-05-18.</ref> also spelled '''humuhumunukunukuapua'a''' or just '''humuhumu''' for short), is one of several [[species]] of [[triggerfish]]. It is found in coral reefs in the entirety of the Western Pacific Ocean from North to South and Eastern Central Pacific. It is also found in the Indian Ocean from East to West and the Southeast Atlantic Ocean. It exists in 0 to 50 meters in depth.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Matsuura |first1= K. |date=November 2014 | title=Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014 |journal= Ichthyol Res| volume=62 |pages= 72–113 |doi=10.1007/s10228-014-0444-5}}</ref>
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