Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05
Balistes
Triggerfish
Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Balistes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Balistidae, the triggerfishes. The triggerfishes in this genus are found in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1992 and 2006.R
- 5
- observations
- 5
- records
- 1992–2006
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in
Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.
Under it · 1 taxon
- sp Balistes polylepis Finescale triggerfish5
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:126228")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:126228'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/worms-126228.json