WoRMS taxon details
Balistes vetula Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 127397
AphiaID: 127397
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Balistidae (Family) > Balistes (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Balistes Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Balistes Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Balistes bellus Walbaum, 1792 Balistes equestris Gronow, 1854 Balistes vetula trinitatis Nichols & Murphy, 1914 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 page(s): 329 [details] basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] additional source: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details] additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Balistes vetula trinitatis Nichols & Murphy, 1914 accepted as Balistes vetula Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Taeniacanthus balistae (Claus, 1864) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus suffuscus Wilson C.B., 1913 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Orbitacolax analogus Vervoort, 1969 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (27 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (156 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 38 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to southeastern Brazil [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127397 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Balistes vetula Linnaeus, 1758. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127397 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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