Balistes Linnaeus [C.] 1758:327 Masc. Balistes vetula Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Bleeker 1865:98 [ref. 416] and 1866:10 [ref. 417]. •Valid as Balistes Linnaeus 1758 -- (Moore 1967:691 [ref. 22820], Torchio 1973:641 [ref. 6892], Tyler 1980:121 [ref. 4477], Arai 1983:199 [ref. 14249], Aboussouan & Leis 1984:452 [ref. 13661], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:1335 [ref. 13677], Smith & Heemstra 1986:877 [ref. 5714], Lindberg et al. 1997:58 [ref. 23547], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:503 [ref. 24550], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:850 [ref. 25968], Matsuura 2003:1964 [ref. 27119], Parin 2003:S32 [ref. 28536], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:75 [ref. 36649], Matsuura 2014:7 [ref. 33576], Parin et al. 2014:550 [ref. 33547], Robertson et al. 2017:106 [ref. 35676], Brown et al. 2019:182 [ref. 36444], Parenti 2021:649 [ref. 38921]). Current status: Valid as Balistes Linnaeus 1758. Balistidae.