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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 bellus Walbaum, 1792
Balistes bellus Walbaum, 1792
Balistes bellus Walbaum, 1792
Balistes bellus Walbaum, 1792
Balistes equestris Gronow, 1854
Balistes equestris Gronow, 1854
Balistes equestris Gronow, 1854
Balistes equestris Gronow, 1854
Balistes equestris Gronow, 1854
Balistes vetula trinitatis Nichols & Murphy, 1914
Balistes vetula trinitatis Nichols & Murphy, 1914
Balistes vetula trinitatis Nichols & Murphy, 1914
Balistes vetula trinitatis Nichols & Murphy, 1914
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.
Reviewer/s:
Contributor/s:

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
Angola (Angola); Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Brazil; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Curaçao; 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 and Tristan da Cunha (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 – eastern central; Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – western central
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Marine
Citation: Roberts, C. 1996. Balistes vetula. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 May 2013.
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