Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Balistidae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Balistidae according to K. Matsuura 2015
See also Arambourg 1927, Casier 1958, de Beaufort 1926, Fierstine et al. 2012, Schultz 2004, Sepkoski 2002 and Vicens and RodrÃguez-Perea 2003
Sister taxa: Balistomorphus, Gornylistes, Grypodon, Oligobalistes
Subtaxa: Balistes crassidens Balistes dubius Balistes lerichei Balistes muensteri Balistes polylepis Balistes procapriscus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: Florida, Georgia collections)
• Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (1), Indonesia (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Venezuela (1)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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