Balistes

Balistes is a genus of triggerfish.

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

Species

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

Fossil species
  • † 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, K. (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.
  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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