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) © Orlandin | Dreamstime.com
Within the same genus

White-spotted puffer
(Arothron hispidus)
(Arothron hispidus)

Blackspotted puffer
(Arothron nigropunctatus)
(Arothron nigropunctatus)

Starry pufferfish
(Arothron stellatus)
(Arothron stellatus)

Immaculate pufferfish
(Arothron immaculatus)
(Arothron immaculatus)

Masked puffer
(Arothron diadematus)
(Arothron diadematus)

Narrow lined pufferfish
(Arothron manilensis)
(Arothron manilensis)
Within the same family

Valentin's sharpnose puffer
(Canthigaster valentini)
(Canthigaster valentini)

Bandtail puffer
(Sphoeroides spengleri)
(Sphoeroides spengleri)

Checkered puffer
(Sphoeroides testudineus)
(Sphoeroides testudineus)

Pearl toby
(Canthigaster margaritata)
(Canthigaster margaritata)
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False leopard wrasse
(Macropharyngodon ornatus)
(Macropharyngodon ornatus)

Scaleless shrimpgoby
(Tomiyamichthys nudus)
(Tomiyamichthys nudus)

Banded shrimpgoby
(Cryptocentrus cinctus)
(Cryptocentrus cinctus)

Grey moray
(Gymnothorax griseus)
(Gymnothorax griseus)

Rusty angelfish
(Centropyge ferrugata)
(Centropyge ferrugata)

Blackspot squirrelfish
(Sargocentron melanospilos)
(Sargocentron melanospilos)

Wolf eel
(Anarrhichthys ocellatus)
(Anarrhichthys ocellatus)

Banded messmate pipefish
(Corythoichthys intestinalis)
(Corythoichthys intestinalis)
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