Common name: Grey Triggerfish.

Scientific name: Balistes capriscus Gmelin, 1789

Family: Balistidae

Distribution and Habitat: Usually an oceanic pelagic species, it lives mostly under floating objects up to 100 m depth.

Description: Oval, laterally compressed and high body, small mouth with short and strong teeth. It has a bluish grey colouration, lighter in the ventral part, forming a mottled pattern. The fins are blue with light dots and lines. Its maximum length is 40 cm.

Conservation statute and Threats: Not evaluated.

Observations: Caught with a handline.