Balistes

Balistes is a genus of triggerfish.

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

Species

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

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Balistes capriscus J. F. Gmelin, 1789grey triggerfishwestern 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, 1876finescale triggerfishPacific Coast of the Americas from San Francisco southwards to Callao, Peru and the Galapagos.
Balistes punctatus J. F. Gmelin, 1789bluespotted triggerfishEastern Atlantic.
Balistes vetula Linnaeus, 1758queen triggerfishwestern 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. S2CID 254172132.
  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.
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