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Definition of Balistes
1. Noun. Type genus of the Balistidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Balistidae, Family Balistidae
Member holonyms: Balistes Vetula, Bessy Cerca, Oldwench, Oldwife, Queen Triggerfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balistes
Literary usage of Balistes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fishes of Zanzibar: Acanthopterygii by Robert Lambert Playfair, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1866)
"Eed Sea. East-Indian archipelago. Réunion. balistes, L. 456. balistes ... 2, and
NW Fische, p. 60. Zanzibar. Eed Sea. 457. balistes frenatus. [88. ..."
2. Spolia Zeylanica by Colombo Museum, National Museums of Sri Lanka, National Museums of Ceylon (1908)
"These combined facts led to the original idea that balistes might be an intermediate
host of the pearl-inducing worm, although later Shipley and Hornell ..."
3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1829)
"Ventral, anal, dorsal, and caudal fins, with small black spots. Fig. 138. is about
one tenth of the length of thefish.— balistes aculeatus var. viridis. ..."
4. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1883)
"17. fig. 2. '• Baru-Baru " of the natives. 252. balistes FUSCUS, Bl. ...
balistes ACULEATUS, L. ..."
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