Sealife guideThe immaculate pufferfishArothron immaculatus

Last updated on 02/15/2024 at 11:45 PM

Taxonomy

Common name: Immaculate pufferfish
French name: Poisson ballon immaculé
Scientific name: Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Family name: Tetraodontidae
Order name: Tetraodontiformes
Class name: Actinopterygii

Did you know ?

The immaculate pufferfish is listed as many other marine species within The IUCN Red List of threatened species. The immaculate pufferfish appears in the IUCN Red List since 2014 within the category Least Concern !

The immaculate pufferfish (Arothron immaculatus) © Orlandin | Dreamstime.com

Within the same genus

Blackspotted puffer
(Arothron nigropunctatus)

Guineafowl puffer
(Arothron meleagris)

Map puffer
(Arothron mappa)

Masked puffer
(Arothron diadematus)

Narrow lined pufferfish
(Arothron manilensis)

Starry pufferfish
(Arothron stellatus)

White-spotted puffer
(Arothron hispidus)

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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Blackspot squirrelfish
(Sargocentron melanospilos)

Clearfin squirrelfish
(Neoniphon argenteus)

Coney
(Cephalopholis fulva)

Five-spotted wrasse
(Symphodus roissali)

Ocean sunfish
(Mola mola)

Orange banded butterflyfish
(Coradion chrysozonus)

Pearlscale butterflyfish
(Chaetodon xanthurus)

Vermiculate rabbitfish
(Siganus vermiculatus)

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