genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
freshwater
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include non-salty mi ...
pufferfishes
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, ...
native to
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...
. They generally resemble ''
Chonerhinos
''Chonerhinos'' is a monotypic genus of pufferfish, family Tetraodontidae. The only species is ''Chonerhinos naritus'', the bronze pufferfish or yellow pufferfish. It is native to Southeast Asia, where it is mainly found in estuarine and coastal ...
'', but are considerably smaller, only reaching up to in length, and are more strongly associated with freshwater. The different ''Auriglobus'' species are very similar in appearance — greenish-golden or yellowish-golden above and pale below — but can be separated by
morphometrics
Morphometrics (from Greek μορΦή ''morphe'', "shape, form", and -μετρία ''metria'', "measurement") or morphometry refers to the quantitative analysis of ''form'', a concept that encompasses size and shape. Morphometric analyses are co ...
and
meristics
Meristics is an area of zoology and botany which relates to counting quantitative features of animals and plants, such as the number of fins or scales in fish. A meristic (countable trait) can be used to describe a particular species, or used to i ...
. Until 1999, the ''Auriglobus'' species were included in ''Chonerhinos''.
Auriglobus modestus
''Auriglobus modestus'', the bronze puffer or golden puffer, is a ray-finned fish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is found in the middle parts of rivers to their estuaries in southeast Asia, including Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia ...