Sealife guideThe guineafowl pufferArothron meleagris

Taxonomy
  • Common name: Guineafowl puffer
  • French name: Poisson ballon pintade
  • Spanish name: Botete aletas punteadas
  • Scientific name: Arothron meleagris (Anonymous, 1798)
  • Family name: Tetraodontidae
  • Order name: Tetraodontiformes
  • Class name: Actinopterygii
Did you know ?
The guineafowl puffer is listed as many other marine species within The IUCN Red List of threatened species. The guineafowl puffer appears in the IUCN Red List since 2014 within the category Least Concern !
The guineafowl puffer (Arothron meleagris)
The guineafowl puffer (Arothron meleagris) ©  | Dreamstime.com
Within the same genus
White-spotted puffer (Arothron hispidus)
White-spotted puffer
(Arothron hispidus)
Blackspotted puffer (Arothron nigropunctatus)
Blackspotted puffer
(Arothron nigropunctatus)
Starry pufferfish (Arothron stellatus)
Starry pufferfish
(Arothron stellatus)
Immaculate pufferfish (Arothron immaculatus)
Immaculate pufferfish
(Arothron immaculatus)
Masked puffer (Arothron diadematus)
Masked puffer
(Arothron diadematus)
Narrow lined pufferfish (Arothron manilensis)
Narrow lined pufferfish
(Arothron manilensis)
Within the same family
Valentin's sharpnose puffer (Canthigaster valentini)
Valentin's sharpnose puffer
(Canthigaster valentini)
Bandtail puffer (Sphoeroides spengleri)
Bandtail puffer
(Sphoeroides spengleri)
Checkered puffer (Sphoeroides testudineus)
Checkered puffer
(Sphoeroides testudineus)
Pearl toby (Canthigaster margaritata)
Pearl toby
(Canthigaster margaritata)
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False leopard wrasse
(Macropharyngodon ornatus)
Scaleless shrimpgoby (Tomiyamichthys nudus)
Scaleless shrimpgoby
(Tomiyamichthys nudus)
Banded shrimpgoby (Cryptocentrus cinctus)
Banded shrimpgoby
(Cryptocentrus cinctus)
Grey moray (Gymnothorax griseus)
Grey moray
(Gymnothorax griseus)
Rusty angelfish (Centropyge ferrugata)
Rusty angelfish
(Centropyge ferrugata)
Blackspot squirrelfish (Sargocentron melanospilos)
Blackspot squirrelfish
(Sargocentron melanospilos)
Wolf eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus)
Wolf eel
(Anarrhichthys ocellatus)
Banded messmate pipefish (Corythoichthys intestinalis)
Banded messmate pipefish
(Corythoichthys intestinalis)

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