Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus 1758)
- 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
- Arothron
- species
- Arothron hispidus
description
Stripebelly Puffer or White-spotted Pufferfish. To 52 cm (20.5 in) TL (Kulbicki et al. 2005). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Yonaguni-jima Island, Japan (Koeda et al. 2016); Todos Santos area (23 ° 24.6 ’ N, 110 ° 13.8 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and tip of Baja California to Colombia (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); not in Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 122 m (400 ft) (min.: Kwun et al. 2017; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).
Name
- Homonyms
- Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus 1758)