Pinktail triggerfish
Amazing fact
The pinktail triggerfish has a pinkish tail fin with a white base.
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The pinktail triggerfish has a pinkish tail fin with a white base.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Pinktail triggerfish
- Scientific name
- Melichthys vidua
- Japanese name
- クロモンガラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Balistidae
- Genus
- Melichthys
It lives from Japan's southern islands across wide areas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Pinktail triggerfish lives
It mainly eats algae and bits of dead organisms, as well as crustaceans, fish and other animals.
Museums Victoria / Fishes of AustraliaBasic data
- Range
- Indo-Pacific, Galápagos Islands, Costa Rica, and elsewhere
Where the Pinktail triggerfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- クロモンガラ
- 简体中文
- 黑边角鳞鲀
- 繁體中文
- 黑邊角鱗魨
- Español
- Ballesta de aleta rosada
- Français
- Baliste à queue rose
- Deutsch
- Witwen-Drückerfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Cangulo-de-cauda-rosa
- Italiano
- Pesce balestra con la coda rossa
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ikan kambing kaca
- Русский
- Розовохвостый спинорог
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — クロモンガラChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria / Fishes of Australia — Pinktail Triggerfish, Melichthys viduaChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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