Tetraodon

Taxobox
name = "Tetraodon"
fossil_range = Middle Miocene to Present [cite journal
last = Sepkoski
first = Jack
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera
journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology
volume = 364
issue =
pages = p.560
publisher =
location =
date = 2002
url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class
doi =
id =
accessdate = 2008-01-08 ]


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Giant freshwater pufferfish
"Tetraodon mbu"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Tetraodontiformes
familia = Tetraodontidae
genus = "Tetraodon"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Tetraodon" is the largest genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae). Its members have a wide distribution, from Africa to Southeast Asia.

Species

* "Tetraodon abei" (Roberts, 1998)
* "Tetraodon baileyi" (Sontirat, 1989)
* "Tetraodon barbatus" (Roberts, 1998)
* "Tetraodon biocellatus", Figure 8 puffer or Eyespot puffer (Tirant, 1885)
* "Tetraodon cambodgiensis" (Chabanaud, 1923)
* "Tetraodon cochinchinensis" (Steindachner, 1866)
* "Tetraodon cutcutia", Common puffer or Ocellated puffer (Hamilton, 1822)
* "Tetraodon duboisi" (Poll, 1959)
* "Tetraodon erythrotaenia" or Red-striped toadfish" (Bleeker, 1853)
* "Tetraodon fluviatilis" or Ceylon puffer (Hamilton, 1822)
* "Tetraodon implutus" (Jenyns, 1842)
* "Tetraodon kretamensis" (Inger, 1953)
* "Tetraodon leiurus" (Bleeker, 1851)
* "Tetraodon lineatus", Nile puffer or Fahaka puffer (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Tetraodon mbu", Giant freshwater puffer or Mbu puffer (Boulenger, 1899)
* "Tetraodon miurus", Potato puffer or Congo puffer (Boulenger, 1902)
* Green spotted puffer, "Tetraodon nigroviridis" (Marion de Procé, 1822)
* King Kong pufferfish or humpback pufferfish, "Tetraodon palembangensis" Bleeker, 1852
* Redline pufferfish, "Tetraodon pustulatus" Murray, 1857
* "Tetraodon sabahensis" Dekkers, 1975
* "Tetraodon schoutedeni" Pellegrin, 1926
* "Tetraodon suvattii" Sontirat, 1989
* "Tetraodon waandersii" Bleeker, 1853

References

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