Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns 1842)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Tetraodontiformes
- family
- Tetraodontidae
- genus
- Sphoeroides
- species
- Sphoeroides annulatus
description
Bullseye Puffer. To 48 cm (18.9 in) TL (Amezcua Linares 1996). Redondo Beach, southern California (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) to Pisco, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Watson in Moser 1996). Mostly marine, juveniles in estuaries (Velasco and Thiel 2002); benthic; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 105 m (344 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996).
Name
- Homonyms
- Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns 1842)