''Dichotomyctere'' is a

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of relatively small

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, swellfi ...

found in both fresh and

brackish Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuari ...

waters in

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and

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. Its species were generally included in the genus ''

Tetraodon ''Tetraodon'' is a genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae) found in freshwater in Africa. It is the type genus of the family and historically included numerous other species; several Asian species were only moved to the genera '' Dichotom ...

'' until 2013. Kottelat, M. (2013). The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries. ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No. 27: 1–663.''Eschmeyer, W. N., R. Fricke, and R. van der Laan (18 February 2017).
Catalog of Fishes.
' Retrieved 18 February 2017. The largest species of ''Dichotomyctere'' reach up to in length.

Species

There are currently 6 species in the genus: * '' Dichotomyctere erythrotaenia'' — Red-striped toadfish * ''

Dichotomyctere fluviatilis The green pufferfish or Ceylon pufferfish (''Dichotomyctere fluviatilis'', syn. ''Tetraodon fluviatilis'') is a species of pufferfish found in South and Southeast Asia. Its habitat include rivers, estuaries, lakes and flood plains. It lives in ...

'' — Green pufferfish * '' Dichotomyctere kretamensis'' * '' Dichotomyctere nigroviridis'' — Spotted green pufferfish * '' Dichotomyctere ocellatus'' — Eyespot pufferfish * '' Dichotomyctere sabahensis''

References

Tetraodontidae Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril {{tetraodontiformes-stub