Canthigaster punctatissima (Gunther 1870)
- 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
- Canthigaster
- species
- Canthigaster punctatissima
description
Sharpnosed Puffer or Spotted Sharpnose Puffer. To 9 cm (3.5 in) TL (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995). Tip of Baja California (Robertson and Allen 2002) to La Libertad, Ecuador (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), including Gulf of California (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 24 m (79 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).