''Chelonodontops laticeps'', also known as the bluespotted blaasop, is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of pufferfish in the family

Tetraodontidae Tetraodontidae is a family of marine and freshwater fish in the order Tetraodontiformes. The family includes many familiar species variously called pufferfish, puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, blowers, blowies, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish, ...

. It is native to the western

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia (continent), ...

on the coast of Africa, from South Africa north to Tanzania, and around Madagascar. FishBase includes also Papua New Guinea (Western Central Pacific) in its range. It is a tropical species found in quiet, weedy areas of marine and brackish waters. It reaches in

total length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology. Overall length Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish measured f ...

References

Tetraodontidae Fish of the Indian Ocean Taxa named by J. L. B. Smith Fish described in 1948 {{tetraodontiformes-stub