Abalistes stellatus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Balistidae |
| Genus: | Abalistes |
| Species: | A. stellatus
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| Abalistes stellatus (Anonymous in Lacépède, 1798)
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Abalistes stellatus, the starry triggerfish or flat-tailed triggerfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Balistidae, the triggerfishes. This triggerfish has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution.
Taxonomy
[edit]Abalistes stellatus was first formally described in 1798 by an anomymous author, the descrption being published in Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung and is the author thought to be Bernard Germain de Lacépède based on a description he found in a manuscript writted by Philibert Commerson. The type locality[ was given as Mauritius.[2] In 1839 William John Swainson created a subgenus of Capriscus he called Leiurus but he had already preoccuppied this name with a subgenus of sticklebacks and in 1906 David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale replaced Leiurus with Abalistes, making Capriscus (Leiurus) macropthalmus as its type species by replacement.[3] This species belongs to the family Blaistidae, which is included in the suborder Balistoidei.[4]
Etymology
[edit]Abalistes stellatus is the type species of the genus Abalistes, a name which prefixes a-, meaning "not", with Balistes, the genus that A. stellaris, a synonym of A. stellatus, was considered to belong to. The specific name, stellatus, means "starry", a reference to the small white spots on the upper body.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Matsuura, K. (2022). "Abalistes stellatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T193587A2243971. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T193587A2243971.en. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Abalistes". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Balsitidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification". Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf (21 August 2024). "Order TETRAODONTIFORMES: Families MOLIDAE, BALISTIDAE, MONACANTHIDAE, ARACANIDAE and OSTRACIIDAE". Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
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