''Marilyna'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
pufferfishes native to the western
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...
.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Marilyna darwinii''
( Castelnau, 1873)
* ''
Marilyna meraukensis''
( de Beaufort, 1955) (Merauke toadfish)
* ''
Marilyna pleurosticta''
( Günther, 1872)
References
Tetraodontidae
Marine fish genera
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