Family Balistidae Rafinesque 1810 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Tetraodontiformes - Balistidae

Synonym: Acanthodermidae Bonaparte 1850

Parent taxon: Balistoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019

See also Betancur et al. 2013, Danil'chenko 1960, Ebersole et al. 2019, Fierstine et al. 2012, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Santini and Tyler 2003, Schultz 2004, Tyler and Santini 2002 and Tyler and Sorbini 1996

Sister taxa: Balistoidea, Bolcabalistoidea, Moclaybalistoidea, Monacanthidae, Triacanthoidea

Subtaxa: Acanthoderma Balistes Balistomorphus Gornylistes Grypodon Oligobalistes

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Marshall Islands (2 collections), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (2: Florida, Georgia)

• Pliocene of South Africa (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Costa Rica (1), Czechia (1), Indonesia (1), Mexico (1), Peru (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (1), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Alabama)

• Eocene of India (1), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Alabama)

Total: 25 collections including 28 occurrences

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