Balistoides viridescens
date: label: Collection Date
content: 13 Jun 2025
name: label: Ocean/Sea/Gulf
content: North Pacific Ocean
notes: label: Notes
content: Gonads removed and fixed independently. Male. Gonad notes: Very small, more seperated than Hilton Hotel specimen Color notes: Black margins of dorasal, anal, and caudal fin, light yellow spots on scales. Yellow spots dorsally. Green swoosh above upper lip, no cheek groves. Stomach: crab and hard shell thing (limpet?). Urinary bladder: Very close association with gonad, suspended from same mesntary. (followed urinary bladder to actually find gonad) Other notes: Liver takes up majority of body cavity, goes past gonads, and touches posterior of body cavity
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sesoko Island, Labyrinth diving point, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, North Pacific Ocean
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content: Vertebrate Zoology
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content: Fishes
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Balistoides viridescens
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes Division
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2096931
label: Other Numbers
content: Field Number : TaiOCA 2025-029
label: USNM Number
content: 485686
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii, Neopterygii, Acanthopterygii, Tetraodontiformes, Tetraodontoidei, Balistidae
physicalDescription: label: Sl
content: 410 mm
label: Tl
content: 480 mm
label: Weight
content: 4.1 kg
label: Gonad Weight
content: 0.5 g
label: Preparation
content: Photograph