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Leonard Low from Australia / CC BY / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Balistapus_undulatu…IMAGE INFORMATION

Balistes

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

January 7, 1823

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 123

Notes:

One of about forty species of triggerfish, often brightly colored fish of the family Balistidae, one of which, the orange-lined triggerfish, is pictured here.

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Current Common Name:

Orange-lined triggerfish

Current Scientific Name

Balistapus undulatus