Balistes vetula

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	TETRAODONTIFORMES	BALISTIDAE

Scientific Name:

Balistes vetula

Species Authority:

Linnaeus, 1758

Common Name/s:

English	–	Old Wife, Ol'wife, Queen Triggerfish, Triggerfish, Turbot
French	–	Baliste Royal, Bourse
Spanish	–	Cach√∫a, Cach‚àö‚à´a, Cachúa, Cachuda, Cochino, Oldwife, Pejepuerco, Peje Puerco, Pejepuerco Cachuo, Pez Puerco, Puerco, Sol

Synonym/s:

Balistes bellus Walbaum, 1792

Balistes equestris Gronow, 1854

Balistes vetula trinitatis Nichols & Murphy, 1914

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Vulnerable A2d ver 2.3
Year Assessed:	1996
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	Roberts, C.

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: Angola; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Brazil; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Equatorial Guinea; French Guiana; Gambia; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Martinique; Mauritania; Mexico; Montserrat; Morocco; Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao); Nicaragua; Panama; Puerto Rico; Saint Helena (Ascension); Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United States; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S. Introduced: Bangladesh
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:	Native: Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – eastern central

Countries:

Native:

Angola; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Brazil; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Equatorial Guinea; French Guiana; Gambia; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Martinique; Mauritania; Mexico; Montserrat; Morocco; Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao); Nicaragua; Panama; Puerto Rico; Saint Helena (Ascension); Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United States; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.

Introduced:

Bangladesh

FAO Marine Fishing Areas:

Native:

Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – eastern central

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Marine

Systems:

Marine

Citation:	Roberts, C. 1996. Balistes vetula. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2012.
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