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A bullseye puffer caught near Panama City, Panama (November 21, 2024). Sphoeroides annulatus has a moderately elongated body with a depth that is 25% to 33% of the standard length. Their back is olive-brown, and their flat ventral side is white. Their head and back have narrow yellowish lines, bars, and oblique bands, and 3 narrow bands behind ...
Tragulichthys. Porcupinefish are medium-to-large fish belonging to the family Diodontidae from the order Tetraodontiformes [2] which are also commonly called blowfish and, sometimes, balloonfish and globefish. The family includes about 18 species. They are sometimes collectively called pufferfish, [3] not to be confused with the morphologically ...
Valentin's sharpnose puffer (Canthigaster valentini), also known as the saddled puffer or black saddled toby, is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. The saddled puffer is a small sized fish which grows up to 11 cm. [1] It is widely distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian Ocean, Red Sea ...
The immaculate puffer is a pufferfish and has a rounded body with a short tail. They have no scales or clear lateral line. They are grey or light brown, though they have the ability to change this to a mottled grey-green coloration presumably used for camouflage. [ 2] The lips and iris of the immaculate pufferfish are yellow.
Description. Conventional and X-ray images of Diodon holocanthus. The long-spine porcupinefish is pale in color with large black blotches and smaller black spots; these spots becoming fewer in number with age. It has many long, two-rooted depressible spines particularly on its head. The teeth of the two jaws are fused into a parrot-like "beak".
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Lagocephalus laevigatus, [1] known as the smooth puffer, is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is native to the Western Atlantic, where it ranges from New England to Argentina, as well as the Eastern Atlantic, where it ranges from Mauritania to Namibia. Adults of the species are pelagic and found near continental margins ...
Sphoeroides spengleri. ( Bloch, 1785) Bandtail puffer ( Sphoeroides spengleri) The bandtail puffer ( Sphoeroides spengleri) is a species in the family Tetraodontidae, or pufferfishes. [1] It can grow to a length of about 30 cm and is common in the Caribbean and observed from Massachusetts, USA in the north to Santa Catarina, Brazil in the south.