WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Balistes macrolepis Boulenger, 1888) Boulenger, G. A. (1888). An account of the fishes obtained by Surgeon-Major A. S. G. Jayakar at Muscat, east coast of Arabia. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1887.</em> (pt 4): 653-667, Pl. 54. page(s): 666 [details]
original description
(of Canthidermis villosus Fedoryako, 1979) Fedoryako, B. I. (1979). Triggerfishes of the genera Canthidermis and Xanthichthys (Balistidae, Tetraodontiformes) from the Pacific and Indian oceans. <em>Voprosy Ikhtiologii.</em> v. 19 (no. 6) (art. 119): 983-995. [English translation in Journal of Ichthyology v. 19 (no. 6), 1981:19-30.]. [details]
Ecologyecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Otheradditional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
From editor or global species database
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