Sealife guideThe starry pufferfishArothron stellatus
Taxonomy
- Common name: Starry pufferfish, starry toadfish, blackspotted puffer
- French name: Poisson ballon étoilé
- Spanish name: Pez globo gigante
- Scientific name: Arothron stellatus (Anonymous, 1798)
- Family name: Tetraodontidae
- Order name: Tetraodontiformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii
Did you know ?
The starry pufferfish is the largest species of pufferfish.

The starry pufferfish (Arothron stellatus) © Tomas Ciernik | Dreamstime.com
The starry pufferfish is listed as many other marine species within The IUCN Red List of threatened species. The starry pufferfish appears in the IUCN Red List since 2014 within the category Least Concern !
Within the same genus

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

Blackspotted puffer
(Arothron nigropunctatus)
(Arothron nigropunctatus)

Immaculate pufferfish
(Arothron immaculatus)
(Arothron immaculatus)

Masked puffer
(Arothron diadematus)
(Arothron diadematus)

Guineafowl puffer
(Arothron meleagris)
(Arothron meleagris)

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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Jolthead porgy
(Calamus bajonado)
(Calamus bajonado)

Bicolor damselfish
(Stegastes partitus)
(Stegastes partitus)

White grunt
(Haemulon plumierii)
(Haemulon plumierii)

Tail-spot wrasse
(Halichoeres melanurus)
(Halichoeres melanurus)

Blacktail angelfish
(Centropyge eibli)
(Centropyge eibli)

Lined rabbitfish
(Siganus lineatus)
(Siganus lineatus)

Banded snake eel
(Myrichthys colubrinus)
(Myrichthys colubrinus)

Banded pipefish
(Dunckerocampus dactyliophorus)
(Dunckerocampus dactyliophorus)
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