Abalistes

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Tetraodontiformes

Familia: Balistidae
Genus: Abalistes
Species: A. filamentosus – A. macrophthalmus – A. stellaris – A. stellatus
Name

Abalistes Jordan & Seale, 1906

Abalistes stellatus

References

Abalistes in the World Register of Marine Species

Abalistes is a small genus of triggerfishes that found in the Indo-Pacific and eastern Atlantic. It contains three known species.
Species

There are currently 3 recognized species in this genus:[2]

Abalistes filamentosus Matsuura & Yoshino, 2004 [3]
Abalistes stellaris (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801)
Abalistes stellatus Anonymous, referred to Lacépède, 1798

References

"Genus Abalistes Jordan & Seale 1906". FishWisePro. 1906. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
Matsuura, Keiichi (2014). "Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014". Ichthyological Research. 62 (1): 72–113. doi:10.1007/s10228-014-0444-5. S2CID 254172132.
Matsuura, K. & Yoshino, T. (2004): A new triggerfish of the genus Abalistes (Tetraodontiformes: Balistidae) from the western Pacific. Records of the Australian Museum, 56 (2): 189–194. [1] Archived 2015-09-25 at the Wayback Machine Open access icon