''Contusus'' is a

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pufferfish 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, blowies, bubblefish, globefish, swellfis ...

es native to the coastal waters of southern

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Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * ''

Contusus brevicaudus ''Contusus brevicaudus'', known as the prickly toadfish (a name also used for the closely related species Contusus richei, ''C. richei''), is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is known only from Australia, ranging from West ...

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, 1981 * ''

Contusus richei The prickly toadfish (''Contusus richei'') is a pufferfish of the family ''Tetraodontidae'', found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the southwest Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divis ...

'' ( Fréminville, 1813) (Prickly toadfish)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q841925 Tetraodontidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley