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Sphoeroides maculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Tetraodontiformes
family
Tetraodontidae
genus
Sphoeroides
species
Sphoeroides maculatus

Name

Synonyms
Sphaeroides maculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Spheroldes maculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Tetraodon maculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Tetrodon hispidus maculatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Tetrodon turgidus Mitchill, 1815
Homonyms
Sphoeroides maculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Common names
Baiacu in Portuguese
Blåsfisk in Swedish
Chicken-of-the-sea in English
Chicken-of-the-sea in English
Compère in French
Compère Bigarè in French
Compère Bigaré in French
Fugu in Japanese
Green Eye in English
Green eye in English
Kugelfisch in German
Nordlig Kuglefisk in language.
Northern Puffer in English
Northern Puffer in English
Pallokala in Finnish
Peix bola d'estuari in Catalan–Valencian
Peixe-bola in Portuguese
Peixe-bola-do-norte in Portuguese
Puff Fish in English
Puff fish in English
Puffer in English
Sugar Toad in English
Swellfish in English
Swelling Toad in English
Swelling toad in English
Tamboril in Spanish
Tamboril Norteño in Spanish
Tetradonte in Italian
Toad in English
blowfish in English
blowfish in English
northern puffer in English
northern puffer in English
northern puffer in English
puffer in English
puffer in English
sphéroïde du nord in French
sphéroïde du nord in French
sphéroïde du nord in French
swellfish in English
swellfish in English
čtverzubec skvrnitý in Czech
Пятнистая рыба-шар in Russian
скалозуб северный in Russian
斑点圆鲀 in language.
斑點圓魨 in Chinese
Northern Puffer in English
Baiacu in Portuguese
Blowfish in English
Blåsfisk in Swedish

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  2. Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002.
  3. Klein-MacPhee, Grace / Collette, Bruce B., and Grace Klein-MacPhee, eds., 2002: Puffers: Family Tetraodontidae. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Third Edition. 598-601.
  4. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  5. Murdy, Edward O., Ray S. Birdsong, and John A. Musick, 1997: null. Fishes of Chesapeake Bay. xi + 324.
  6. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  7. Page, L. M., H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, R. N. Lea, N. E. Mandrak, et al., eds., 2013: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Seventh Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 34. 243.
  8. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  9. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
  10. Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp.
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