Chilomycterus reticulatus (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
- Diodontidae
- genus
- Chilomycterus
- species
- Chilomycterus reticulatus
description
Spotfin Burrfish or Spotted Burrfish. To about 75 cm (29.5 in) TL (Leis in Carpenter and Niem 2001). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); San Pedro, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Chile (Allen and Robertson 1994), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and 1 – 141 m (3 – 462 ft) (Chave and Mundy 1994).