Editing Triggerfish (section)

{{Short description|Family of ray-finned fishes}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Bartonian|present|[[Middle Eocene]] to present<ref name=":1" />}}
| image = Picasso.triggerfish.arp.jpg
| image_caption = [[Lagoon triggerfish]]
| taxon = Balistidae
| authority = [[Antoine Risso|A. Risso]], 1810
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision_ref = <ref name=Matsuura2014>{{cite journal | last1 = Matsuura | first1 = Keiichi | year = 2014 | title = Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014 | url = https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10228-014-0444-5.pdf | journal = Ichthyological Research | volume = 62 | issue = 1| pages = 72–113 | doi=10.1007/s10228-014-0444-5| s2cid = 15223867 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2015IchtR..62...72M }}</ref>
| subdivision = See text
}}

'''Triggerfish''' are about 40 species of often brightly colored [[Marine life|marine]] [[Actinopterygii|ray-finned fishes]] belonging to the [[family (biology)|family]] '''Balistidae'''. Often marked by lines and spots, they inhabit [[Tropics|tropical]] and [[Subtropics|subtropical]] oceans throughout the world, with the greatest [[species richness]] in the [[Indo-Pacific]]. Most are found in relatively shallow, coastal habitats, especially at [[coral reef]]s, but a few, such as the [[oceanic triggerfish]] (''Canthidermis maculata''), are [[pelagic]]. While several species from this family are popular in the marine [[aquarium]] trade, they are often notoriously ill-tempered.<ref name="Lieske">{{Cite book|title=Coral Reef Fishes: Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean including the Red Sea|last1=Lieske|first1=Ewald|last2=Myers|first2=Robert|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1999|isbn=0-691-00481-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780691004815}}</ref><ref name="McDavid">{{Cite magazine|last=McDavid|first=Jim|date=July 2007|title=Aquarium Fish: Triggerfish|url=https://www.advancedaquarist.com/2007/7/fish|magazine=Advanced Aquarist|volume=VI|issue=VII|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606115651/https://www.advancedaquarist.com/2007/7/fish|archive-date=6 June 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>