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  2. Tetraodontidae - Wikipedia

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    Deflated Valentinni's sharpnose puffer. 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]

  3. Oceanic puffer - Wikipedia

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    The oceanic puffer, sci-name: Lagocephalus lagocephalus (meaning "rabbit head"), is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, found in all tropical and subtropical oceans, at depths of between 10 and 475 m. Though indigenous to the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans as well as the Sea of Japan, a surge in its distribution throughout the ...

  4. Porcupinefish - Wikipedia

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    They are sometimes collectively called pufferfish, [3] not to be confused with the morphologically similar and closely related Tetraodontidae, which are more commonly given this name. They are found in shallow, temperate, and tropical seas worldwide.

  5. Sphoeroides annulatus - Wikipedia

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    Three species of puffer span along the north-west of the Mexican Pacific coastline. Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns 1842), [2] commonly known as the bullseye puffer, is distributed along the eastern Pacific Ocean, from south California, USA, to the Peruvian coasts, including the Gulf of California and Galápagos Islands (Fishbase). [3]

  6. Long-spine porcupinefish - Wikipedia

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    The long-spine porcupinefish (Diodon holocanthus), also known as the freckled porcupinefish, porcupine puffer, and porcupine pufferfish, is a species of marine fish in the family Diodontidae. [ 2 ] Description

  7. Arothron immaculatus - Wikipedia

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    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. The caudal fin is ...

  8. Arothron stellatus - Wikipedia

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    Arothron stellatus, also known as the stellate pufferfish, [3] starry puffer, [4] or starry toadfish, [5] is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. It is found in shallow water in the Indo-Pacific region.

  9. 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 ]