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Balistes vetula

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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 Published: 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
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Marine

Bibliography [top]

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.
Citation: Roberts, C. 1996. Balistes vetula. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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