Intentional partial beaching in a coral reef fish: a newly recorded hunting behaviour for titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens.

Matthew Tietbohl; Royale Hardenstine; Lyndsey K Tanabe; Ann Marie Hulver; Michael L. Berumen

doi:10.1111/jfb.14513

Intentional partial beaching in a coral reef fish: a newly recorded hunting behaviour for titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens.

Matthew Tietbohl, Royale Hardenstine, Lyndsey K Tanabe, Ann Marie Hulver, Michael L. Berumen

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Coral reef fishes use a multitude of diverse feeding behaviours to increase their ability to successfully capture a wide range of prey. Here, we report a novel hunting behaviour in a coral reef fish, the titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens, where an individual was seen partially beaching itself while attempting to catch a Red Sea ghost crab, Ocypode saratan. This is the first report of this behaviour in the order Tetraodontiformes, and represents an astonishing capability for this species to exploit food resources outside their typical assumed ecological niche.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Journal of fish biology
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14513
State	Published - Sep 1 2020

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Acknowledgements: This work was funded and supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. We thank the Dream Divers captains and staff for support during this trip and providing logistic operations in the field. We also thank Dr. Noah Bressman and two anonymous reviewers for comments on this manuscript, and Irene Salinas Akhmadeeva for her assistance in providing drawings for Figure 2

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Intentional partial beaching in a coral reef fish: a newly recorded hunting behaviour for titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens.

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