Filefish & Triggerfishes - Reef Life of the Andaman - Part 12

First we look at the scrawled filefish, Aluterus scriptus, sometimes known as a "scribbled filefish" or "scribbled leatherjacket", a common sight at many dive sites in Thailand.

Then we encounter various members of the triggerfish family (Balistidae). The orange-lined triggerfish feeding on a sea urchin at Staghorn Reef on Racha Yai Island. Then the amazing patterns of the clown triggerfish, Balistoides conspicillum, at various sites in Thailand's Similan Islands. Schools of redtooth triggerfish, Odonus niger, adorn the reefs at the Burma Banks. We find the larger yellowmargin triggerfish, Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus, at Hin Muang. And finally we encounter the often-aggressive titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens, attacking my fins at Koh Bon in defence of it's nest.