Balistomorphus Explained

Balistomorphus is an extinct genus of prehistoric triggerfish during the early Oligocene epoch in what is now Canton Glarus, Switzerland. It inhabited the marine environment of the Tethys Ocean.^{[1] [2] [3]}

The following species are known. All were formerly placed in the preoccupied genus Acanthoderma:^[4]

• B. orbiculatus (Heer, 1865)
• B. ovalis (Agassiz, 1842)
• B. spinosus (Agassiz, 1842)

Woodward (1901) considered all species synonymous with B. spinosus, but later studies have retained them all as distinct.

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

Notes and References

1. Web site: PBDB . 2024-03-05 . paleobiodb.org.
2. Bannikov . A. F. . Tyler . J. C. . 2008-10-01 . A new genus and species of triggerfish from the Middle Eocene of the Northern Caucasus, the earliest member of the Balistidae (Tetraodontiformes) . Paleontological Journal . en . 42 . 6 . 615–620 . 10.1134/S0031030108060075 . 2008PalJ...42..615B . 1555-6174.
3. McCord . Charlene L. . Westneat . Mark W. . 2016-01-01 . Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of BMP4 in triggerfishes and filefishes (Balistoidea) . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 94 . Pt A . 397–409 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.014 . 1055-7903. free . 26408967 . 2016MolPE..94..397M .
4. Book: Geology . British Museum (Natural History) Department of . Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini . Woodward . Arthur Smith . 1901 . order of the Trustees . en.