Blunthead puffer
Blunthead puffer | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
Family: | Tetraodontidae |
Genus: | Sphoeroides |
Species: | S. pachygaster |
Binomial name | |
Sphoeroides pachygaster (J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1848) | |
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The blunthead puffer, Sphoeroides pachygaster, is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, found circumglobally in tropical and temperate seas, at depths between 50 and 500 m. Its length is up to 40 cm.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Sphoeroides pachygaster" in FishBase. April 2012 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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