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Taxon: Family Balistidae Rafinesque, 1810 - triggerfishes (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Rafinesque, 1810, orth. corr.
Original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 41 ("Ordine. I Balistini."). [family, nom. vernac.]. ≡
Latinized name:  Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 92 ("S. F. Balistia."). ≡
Subsequent spelling:  Bonaparte, C.L. 1831c. Giorn. Arcad. Sci. 52: 186 ("Famiglia"). ≡
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 133 ("Rafinesque 1810").

Attributes

Available family-group name, later latinized [ICZN, 1999: Art. 11.7.2 (<1900)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 133 ("Article 11.7.2").
Justified emendation of suffix (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Arts. 29.2, 34.1 (family)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 133. [inferred]

Types

Nominotypical taxon of: Balistoidei (Suborder)
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Balistinae (Subfamily)
Type: Balistes (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 454; [<29 Feb 2024]. [inferred]

Variants

Former rank: Balistinae (Subfamily) Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 454; [<29 Feb 2024]; [ECoF(14 Mar 2025)]. [inferred]

Synonyms

Including: †Acanthodermidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1850 Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 83.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: trekkervissen Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: triggerfishes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 522; ECoF(14 Mar 2025).
: triggerfishes Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2493.
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