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  2. Lagocephalus laevigatus - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Arothron stellatus - Wikipedia

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    Arothron stellatus is a very large pufferfish that grows up to 120 cm (47 in) in length. [6] Its body is oval shaped, spherical and relatively elongated. The skin is not covered with scales but is prickly. The fish has no pelvic fin and no lateral line. The dorsal fin and the anal fin are small, symmetric, and located at the rear end of the ...

  4. Tetraodontidae - Wikipedia

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    Tetraodontidae. Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes. The family includes many familiar species variously called pufferfish, puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, blowers, blowies, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish, toadfish, toadies, toadle, honey toads, sugar toads, and sea squab. [1]

  5. Arothron meleagris - Wikipedia

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    Arothron meleagris, commonly known as the guineafowl puffer or golden puffer, is a pufferfish from the Indo-Pacific, and Eastern Pacific. It is occasionally harvested for the aquarium trade. It reaches 50 cm in length. Guineafowl puffers have heavy rounded bodies that are uniformly black with numerous small white spots (black puffer or botete ...

  6. Northern puffer - Wikipedia

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    The northern puffer, Sphoeroides maculatus, is a species in the family Tetraodontidae, or pufferfishes, found along the Atlantic coast of North America. [2] Unlike many other pufferfish species, the flesh of the northern puffer is not poisonous, although its viscera can contain poison, [1] [2] and high concentrations of toxins have been observed in the skin of Floridian populations.

  7. Map puffer - Wikipedia

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    The map puffer (Arothron mappa), also known as the map pufferfish, scribbled pufferfish, or Kesho-fugu, [2] is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. The map puffer is typically found in tropical and subtropical waters from the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific Ocean. [3] This fish contains tetrodotoxin, a potent and ...

  8. Amblyrhynchotes honckenii - Wikipedia

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    Description. Amblyrhynchotes honckenii has a big head that tapers to a narrow tail. It grows up to 25 cm (9.8 in) long. The head is bluntly rounded with high set eyes and a small mouth. The eyes are deep blue or green in colour with a yellow or orange iris. The upper parts of the body range from black to dark brown to dark green in colour and ...

  9. Valentin's sharpnose puffer - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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