Species that contain: Balistes and undulatus [ 9 ] records

ellioti, Balistes Day [F.] 1889:478 [The fauna of British India v. 2; ref. 4888] Madras, India. No types known. Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:162 [ref. 23762]. Based on a drawing. •Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797) -- (Parenti 2021:649 [ref. 38921]). Current status: Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797). Balistidae. Habitat: marine.

lineatus, Balistes Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:466, Pl. 87 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Coast of Coromandel, India. Holotype (unique): ZMB 5902 (stuffed). •Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797) -- (Dor 1984:275 [ref. 29757]). •Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797) -- (Matsuura 2001:3919 [ref. 26315], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:440 [ref. 28072], Parenti 2021:649 [ref. 38921], Matsuura 2022:416 [ref. 40250]). Current status: Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797). Balistidae. Habitat: marine.

minor, Balistes aculeatus Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:xvii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] No locality stated (Red Sea). No types known. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:58 [ref. 30182]. •Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797) -- (Dor 1984:275 [ref. 29757], Fricke 2008:58 [ref. 30182], Parenti 2021:649 [ref. 38921]). Current status: Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797). Balistidae. Habitat: marine.

porcatus, Balistes Gronow [L. T.] in Gray 1854:32 [Catalogue of fish collected and described by Laurence Theodore Gronow; ref. 1911] Indian seas. Syntypes: BMNH 1853.11.12.192 [Gronovius coll.] (1, skin). Type catalog: Wheeler 1958:245 [ref. 13434] but as holotype. •Synonym of Balistes undulatus Park 1797 -- (Wheeler 1958:245 [ref. 13434]). •Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797) -- (Parenti 2021:649 [ref. 38921]). Current status: Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797). Balistidae. Habitat: marine.

schmittii, Balistes Bleeker [P.] 1852:37 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 24 (art. 11); ref. 16836] Padang, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797) -- (Parenti 2021:649 [ref. 38921]). Current status: Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797). Balistidae. Habitat: marine.

sesquilineatus, Balistes Lay [G. T.] & Bennett [E. T.] 1839:69, Pl. 21 (fig. 3) [The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage; ref. 2730] Tahiti, Society Islands. Holotype (unique): not preserved. Based on a drawing by R. B. Beechey. •Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797) -- (Parenti 2021:649 [ref. 38921]). Current status: Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797). Balistidae. Habitat: marine.

theresae, Balistes Curtiss [A.] 1938:131 [A short zoology of Tahiti in the Society islands; ref. 18057] Lagoon near Tautira, Tahiti, Society Islands. No types known. •Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797) -- (Parenti 2021:649 [ref. 38921]). Current status: Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797). Balistidae. Habitat: marine.

undulatus, Balistes Park [M.] 1797:37 [The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London v. 3 (art. 9); ref. 17801] Habitat in Sumatræ littore [Bengkulu Province, Sumatra, Indonesia, eastern Indian Ocean]. Holotype: BMNH 1863.11.12.1 (dry, left half skin). Type catalog: Wheeler 1974:476 [ref. 31545]. •Valid as Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:350 [ref. 19756], Kyushin et al. 1982:293 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:274 [ref. 29757], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:358 [ref. 6441], Smith & Heemstra 1986:877 [ref. 5714], Allen & Swainston 1988:150 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:67 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:452 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:73 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:610 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:238 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:180 [ref. 26476], Kuiter 1997:388 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:452 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:281 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:577 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:753 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:94 [ref. 37268] as Balastapus u., Matsuura in Randall & Lim 2000:647 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1399 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:454 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:21 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:124 [ref. 25868], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:105 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:47 [ref. 25847], Matsuura 2001:3919 [ref. 26315], Nakabo 2002:1399 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:64 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S123 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:649 [ref. 27495], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:218 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:31 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:127 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3331 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:440 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:620 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:522 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1871 [ref. 29098], Fricke 2008:58 [ref. 30182], Fricke et al. 2009:115 [ref. 30213], Matsuura 2009:326 [ref. 31171], Motomura et al. 2010:232 [ref. 31256], Caratini & Soriano 2011:13 [ref. 39915], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1060 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:272 [ref. 32706], Matsuura 2014:7 [ref. 33576], Fricke et al. 2014:192 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:109 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:376 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:177 [ref. 36273], Franklin et al. 2019:101 [ref. 37345], Fricke et al. 2019:321 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:101 [ref. 36871], Fujiwara et al. 2020:38 [ref. 38631], Psomadakis et al. 2020:606 [ref. 37272], Ray & Mohapatra 2020:102 [ref. 37299], Parenti 2021:649 [ref. 38921], Dewa et al. 2022:30 [ref. 40001], Furuhashi & Motomura 2022:17 [ref. 39607], Matsuura 2022:416 [ref. 40250], Moazzam & Osmany 2022:331 [ref. 39925], Devi et al. 2023:447 [ref. 40401], Noushad K. et al. 2024:46 [ref. 40947]). Current status: Valid as Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797). Balistidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Line Islands (Kiribati), Marquesas Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynsia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan) and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Australia and New Caledonia; straying to Hawaiian Islands (U. S. A.). Habitat: marine.

viridis, Balistes aculeatus var. Bennett [J. W.] 1828:unnum. p., Pl. 10 [A selection from the most remarkable and interesting fishes found on the coast of Ceylon First Edition; ref. 16785] South coast of Sri Lanka. No types known. •Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797) -- (Pethiyagoda et al. 1994:44 [ref. 21456], Parenti 2021:649 [ref. 38921], Matsuura 2022:416 [ref. 40250]). Current status: Synonym of Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797). Balistidae. Habitat: marine.