The prickly toadfish (''Contusus richei'') is a
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 ...
of the
family ''
Tetraodontidae'', found in the eastern
Indian Ocean and the southwest
Pacific Ocean, at depths down to 50 m. Its length is up to 25 cm.
References
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* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982)
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Tetraodontidae
Fish described in 1813