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Arothron
''Arothron'' is a genus in the pufferfish family Tetraodontidae found in warm parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. These species are sometimes kept in aquaria. The largest species is ''A. stellatus'', which can reach in length. Species There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus: * '' Arothron caeruleopunctatus'' Matsuura, 1994 (Blue-spotted puffer) * '' Arothron carduus'' (Cantor, 1849) * '' Arothron diadematus'' ( Rüppell, 1829) (Masked puffer) * '' Arothron firmamentum'' ( Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) (Starry puffer) * '' Arothron hispidus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (White-spotted puffer) * '' Arothron immaculatus'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Immaculate puffer) * '' Arothron inconditus'' J. L. B. Smith, 1958 (Belly-striped puffer) * '' Arothron manilensis'' ( Marion de Procé, 1822) (Narrow-lined puffer) * '' Arothron mappa'' ( Lesson, 1831) (Map puffer) * '' Arothron meleagris'' (Anonymous, referred to Lacépède, 1798) (Guineafowl puffer) * '' Aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arothron Nigropunctatus
''Arothron'' is a genus in the pufferfish family (biology), family Tetraodontidae found in warm parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. These species are sometimes kept in aquarium, aquaria. The largest species is ''A. stellatus'', which can reach in length. Species There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus: * ''Arothron caeruleopunctatus'' Keiichi Matsuura, Matsuura, 1994 (Blue-spotted puffer) * ''Arothron carduus'' (Theodore Edward Cantor, Cantor, 1849) * ''Arothron diadematus'' (Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell, Rüppell, 1829) (Masked puffer) * ''Arothron firmamentum'' (Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Temminck & Hermann Schlegel, Schlegel, 1850) (Starry puffer) * ''Arothron hispidus'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 1758) (White-spotted puffer) * ''Arothron immaculatus'' (Marcus Elieser Bloch, Bloch & Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Immaculate puffer) * ''Bellystriped blaasop, Arothron inconditus'' James Leonard Brierley Smith, J. L. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arothron Manilensis
''Arothron'' is a genus in the pufferfish family Tetraodontidae found in warm parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. These species are sometimes kept in aquaria. The largest species is ''A. stellatus'', which can reach in length. Species There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus: * '' Arothron caeruleopunctatus'' Matsuura, 1994 (Blue-spotted puffer) * '' Arothron carduus'' (Cantor, 1849) * '' Arothron diadematus'' ( Rüppell, 1829) (Masked puffer) * '' Arothron firmamentum'' (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) (Starry puffer) * '' Arothron hispidus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (White-spotted puffer) * '' Arothron immaculatus'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Immaculate puffer) * '' Arothron inconditus'' J. L. B. Smith, 1958 (Belly-striped puffer) * '' Arothron manilensis'' ( Marion de Procé, 1822) (Narrow-lined puffer) * '' Arothron mappa'' (Lesson, 1831) (Map puffer) * '' Arothron meleagris'' (Anonymous, referred to Lacépède, 1798) (Guineafowl puffer) * '' Arothr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arothron Meleagris
''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 negro''), bright yellow spots (golden puffer or ''botete dorado'') or a mixture of the two morphologies with bright yellow spots and black patches. They have large blunt heads with short snouts and are equipped with a set of massive teeth. They have small and similarly shaped anal and dorsal fins that are well back on their body. Their caudal fin base is long and deep and their caudal fin is rounded. Their body is covered with small denticles that resemble coarse sandpaper. When this fish is scared or frightened, they inflate and make themselves larger, exposing the denticles. Botete negro (Arothron meleagris), Cabo Pulmo, Baj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narrow-lined Puffer
The narrow-lined pufferfish (''Arothron manilensis'') or striped puffer is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. Description ''Arothron manilensis'' is a small sized fish which grows up to 31 cm length. Its body is oval shape, spherical and relatively elongated. The skin is not covered with scales. The fish has no pelvic fin and no lateral line. The dorsal fin and the anal fin are small, symmetric and located at the end of the body. Its snout is short with two pairs of nostrils and its mouth is terminal with four strong teeth. The background coloration is whitish to grey with brown horizontal lines, all the fins are yellowish and semi-translucide except the caudal fin which is opaque and outlined with black. Black blotch more or less circular at the base of the pectoral fin. The iris is also yellowish Distribution and habitat This species is found in tropical waters of the central Indo-Pacific. It lives in estuaries, on the sheltered top reef or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arothron Hispidus
The white-spotted puffer fish (''Arothron hispidus'') is a medium to large-sized puffer fish, it can reach 50 cm length. It is light grey in color, or greyish or yellowish, and clearly covered with more or less regular white points, that become concentric contrasting white and dark grey lines that radiate around the eyes and pectoral fins. The ventral part is white. The "shoulder" (around the pectoral fins) is dark. It also has concentric contrasting white and dark grey lines that radiate around the eyes and pectoral fins. The white spotted puffer fish is poisonous. Its distribution extends through the Indo-Pacific area, Red Sea included, to the eastern Pacific Ocean. A confirmed record was reported recently from the eastern Mediterranean Sea off Cyprus. This individual found in the Mediterranean in 2018 is assumed to be juvenile because of its incomplete white ring-forming circles around its eyes. The adults are said to display many white rings around the eyes, signifying t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arothron Reticularis
''Arothron reticularis'', variously known as the reticulated pufferfish, reticulated blowfish or reticulated toadfish, is a ray-finned fish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is native to the tropical and sub-tropical Indo-Pacific region where its habitats include sandy and muddy seabeds, coral reefs, estuaries and mangrove areas. Description The reticulated pufferfish grows to a length of about . The body is oblong and of flabby texture and is covered in short spines. The area between the eyes is broad and flat and the nostrils bear a small, solid branched tentacle. The lateral line is indistinct and bends sharply above the anal fin. Both dorsal and anal fins are rounded and have one or two spines and eight or nine soft rays. The body colour is brown or deep grey, with whitish rounded spots on the dorsal surface, giving a net-like appearance. About nine bands of colour, alternately dark and pale, start near the snout and bend round below the eye, the mouth and the pectoral fin bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arothron Carduus
''Arothron carduus'' is a ray-finned fish in the Family (biology), family Tetraodontidae. It is an uncommon species and is native to the tropical and sub-tropical Indo-Pacific region. Description This species is characterised by having narrow black convoluted lines on a white background. It is similar in appearance to another very rare species, ''Arothron multilineatus'' from Pagbilao in the Philippines, which has narrow white convoluted lines on a black background. Matsuura, Keiichi, and J. Okuno. "Redescription of a rare pufferfish, Arothron carduus (Cantor, 1849)(Teleostei: Tetraodontidae)." Bull Natl Sci Mus (Ser A) 17 (1991): 159-160. Distribution and habitat ''Arothron carduus'' is an uncommon fish and is known from two separate locations. In the eastern Indian Ocean it occurs in the seas around Penang Island, Malaysia, and in the Western Pacific Ocean, it occurs in the seas around the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. A dried specimen found in Japan may have originated from the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arothron Multilineatus
''Arothron multilineatus'', the multilined pufferfish, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is an uncommon fish and is known only from four specimens from Pagbilao in the Philippines, although photographs of individuals in the Ryukyu Islands, Mozambique and the Red Sea show that it has a wide distribution. It was first described by the Japanese ichthyologist Keiichi Matsuura in 2016. Description The dorsal fin of ''A. multilineatus'' has ten to eleven soft rays and the anal fin has nine to eleven. The body is covered with small spinules except around the eyes and mouth, the gill openings, the fin bases and the sides of the caudal peduncle. This fish grows to a maximum length of . It is characterised by having narrow white convoluted linear markings on a deep greenish-brown background. It is similar in appearance to another rare species, ''Arothron carduus'', which has narrow dark-coloured convoluted lines on a white background. Distribution and habit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arothron Diadematus
The masked puffer (''Arothron diadematus'') is a pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. Distribution Red Sea only. Description Maximum length 30 cm, olive-green/grey with a black mask over the eyes and pectoral fins, mouth has a black border.Siliotti, A. (2002) ''fishes of the red sea'' Verona, Geodia Usually solitary but schools during mating period. Some authors believe this to be a variation of the species ''Arothron nigropunctatus''. Habitat Associated with coral reefs, from surface to 20m depth. Gallery Pez globo (Arothron diadematus), parque nacional Ras Muhammad, Egipto, 2022-03-27, DD 163.jpg, Masked puffer face detail Image:Arothron diademata sleeping.JPG, Masked puffer at night, resting (sleeping?) on a coral Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the subphylum Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact Colony (biology), colonies of many identical individual polyp (zoology), polyps. Coral species include the important Coral ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, toadfish, toadies, toadle, honey toads, sugar toads, and sea squab. They are morphologically similar to the closely related porcupinefish, which have large external spines (unlike the thinner, hidden spines of the Tetraodontidae, which are only visible when the fish have puffed up). The majority of pufferfish species are toxic, with some among the most poisonous vertebrates in the world. In certain species, the internal organs, such as the liver, and sometimes the skin, contain mucus tetrodotoxin, and are highly toxic to most animals when eaten; nevertheless, the meat of some species is considered a delicacy in Japan (as 河豚, pronounced ''fugu''), Korea (as 복, ''bok'', or 복어, ''bogeo''), and China (as 河豚, ''hétún'') when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arothron Caeruleopunctatus
''Arothron caeruleopunctatus'', also known as the blue-spotted pufferfish, is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. Description ''Arothron caeruleopunctatus'' is a medium-sized fish which grows up to 80 cm length. Its body is oval shape, spherical et relatively elongated. The skin is not covered with scales. The fish has no pelvic fin and no lateral line. The dorsal fin and the anal fin are small, symmetric and located at the end of the body. Its snout is short with two pairs of nostrils and its mouth is terminal with four strong teeth. Its body colors and patterns are variable but the background coloration is blue grey except the ventral part which is whitish, a yellowish blotch with an extremely irregular size and outline covers the dorsal part. The body is also studded with bluish to white spots in rice shape and the eyes are circled with concentric lines. Distribution and habitat This species is found in tropical and subtropical waters from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
