Biology:Balistes

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Balistes
Temporal range: Early Miocene[1][2] to present
Balistes capriscus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Balistidae
Genus: Balistes
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Balistes vetula

Balistes is a genus of triggerfish.

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[3]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Balistes capriscus J. F. Gmelin, 1789 grey triggerfish western Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Argentina and also the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and off Angola on the west coast of Africa.
Balistes polylepis Steindachner, 1876 finescale triggerfish Pacific Coast of the Americas from San Francisco southwards to Callao, Peru and the Galapagos.
Balistes punctatus J. F. Gmelin, 1789 bluespotted triggerfish Eastern Atlantic.
Balistes vetula Linnaeus, 1758 queen triggerfish western Atlantic, it ranges from Canada to southern Brazil, and in the eastern Atlantic it is found at Ascension, Cape Verde, Azores and south to Angola

Fossil species

  • Restoration of B. dubius.
    † Balistes dubius Blainville, 1818 (Middle Miocene)[4]
  • † Balistes vegai Lopez, Carr & Lorenzo, 2019 (Miocene)[5]

References

  1. ↑ L. F. de Beaufort. 1926. On a collection of marine fishes from the Miocene of South Celebes. In H. A. Brouwer (ed.), Geologische Onderzoekingen in den Oostelijken Oost-Indischen Archiepel 117-148
  2. ↑ C. A. Laurito, C. Calvo, A. L. Valerio, A. Calvo, and R. Chacón. 2014. "Ictiofauna del Mioceno inferior de localidad de Pacuare des Tres Equis, Formación Río Banao, Provincia de Cartago, Costa Rica, y descripción de un nuevo género y una Nueva Especie de Scaridae". Revista Geológica de América Central 50:153-192
  3. ↑ Matsuura, Keiichi (2014). "Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014". Ichthyological Research 62 (1): 72–113. doi:10.1007/s10228-014-0444-5. 
  4. ↑ Ortwin Schultz, 2004. "A Triggerfish (Osteichthyes: Balistidae: Balistes) from the Badenian (Middle Miocene) of the Vienna and the Styrian Basin (Central Paratethys)". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 106 A.
  5. ↑ Viñola Lopez, Lazaro W.; Carr, Richard; Lorenzo, Logel (2020-10-20). "First occurrence of fossil Balistes (Tetradontiformes: Balistidae) from the Miocene of Cuba with the description of a new species and a revision of fossil Balistes". Historical Biology 32 (9): 1290–1299. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1580278. ISSN 0891-2963. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1580278. 

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