Sealife guideThe white-spotted pufferArothron hispidus
Last updated on 06/11/2024 at 11:50 PM
Taxonomy
- Common name: White-spotted puffer, stripebelly puffer, bristly puffer
- French name: Poisson ballon à taches blanches
- Spanish name: Botete panza rayada
- Scientific name: Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Family name: Tetraodontidae
- Order name: Tetraodontiformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii
Did you know ?
The white-spotted puffer is listed as many other marine species within The
IUCN Red List of threatened species. The white-spotted puffer appears in the
IUCN Red List since 2014 within the category Least Concern !
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Blackspotted puffer
(Arothron nigropunctatus)
Guineafowl puffer
(Arothron meleagris)
Immaculate pufferfish
(Arothron immaculatus)
Map puffer
(Arothron mappa)
Masked puffer
(Arothron diadematus)
Narrow lined pufferfish
(Arothron manilensis)
Starry pufferfish
(Arothron stellatus)
Within the same family
Bandtail puffer
(Sphoeroides spengleri)
Checkered puffer
(Sphoeroides testudineus)
Pearl toby
(Canthigaster margaritata)
Valentin's sharpnose puffer
(Canthigaster valentini)
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(Corythoichthys intestinalis)
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(Echidna catenata)
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(Sparisoma cretense)
Frostfin cardinalfish
(Ostorhinchus hoevenii)
Mediterranean rainbow wrasse
(Coris julis)
Ocean tang
(Acanthurus bahianus)
Polka dot batfish
(Ogcocephalus radiatus)
Yellowtail wrasse
(Anampses meleagrides)
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(Cantherhines pardalis)
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(Zebrasoma desjardinii)
Silvertip shark
(Carcharhinus albimarginatus)
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(Arothron hispidus)
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