Sealife guideThe white-spotted pufferArothron hispidus
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 !
Within the same genus
Blackspotted puffer
(Arothron nigropunctatus)
Starry pufferfish
(Arothron stellatus)
Immaculate pufferfish
(Arothron immaculatus)
Masked puffer
(Arothron diadematus)
Guineafowl puffer
(Arothron meleagris)
Narrow lined pufferfish
(Arothron manilensis)
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Valentin's sharpnose puffer
(Canthigaster valentini)
Bandtail puffer
(Sphoeroides spengleri)
Checkered puffer
(Sphoeroides testudineus)
Pearl toby
(Canthigaster margaritata)
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