Sphoeroides

Taxobox
name = "Sphoeroides"


image_caption = "Sphoeroides pachygaster"
image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Tetraodontiformes
familia = Tetraodontidae
genus = "Sphoeroides"
genus_authority = Anonymous, 1798 [An anonymous review of volume I of Lacépède's "Histoire naturelle des poissons" (in the "Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung", 1798, columns 673–680) was apparently the first publication to Latinize several of Lacépède's genera; in this case Lacépède's name was "Sphéroïdes".]
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Sphoeroides" is a genus of pufferfishes. [FishBase genus | genus = Sphoeroides | month = May | year = 2006]

Species

* "Sphoeroides andersonianus" Morrow, 1957
* Narrow-headed puffer, "Sphoeroides angusticeps" (Jenyns, 1842)
* Bullseye puffer, "Sphoeroides annulatus" (Jenyns, 1842)
* "Sphoeroides cheesemanii" (Clarke, 1897)
* Marbled puffer, "Sphoeroides dorsalis" Longley, 1934
* "Sphoeroides georgemilleri" Shipp, 1972
* Green puffer, "Sphoeroides greeleyi" (Gilbert, 1900)
* Slick puffer, "Sphoeroides kendalli" Meek & Hildebrand, 1928
* Naked puffer, "Sphoeroides lispus" Walker, 1996
* Longnose puffer, "Sphoeroides lobatus" (Steindachner, 1870)
* Northern puffer, "Sphoeroides maculatus" (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
* Guinean puffer, "Sphoeroides marmoratus" (Lowe, 1838)
* Southern puffer, "Sphoeroides nephelus" (Goode & Bean, 1882)
* "Sphoeroides nitidus" Griffin, 1921
* Blunthead puffer, "Sphoeroides pachygaster" (Müller & Troschel, 1848)
* Least puffer, "Sphoeroides parvus" Shipp & Yerger, 1969
* "Sphoeroides rosenblatti" Bussing, 1996
* Peruvian puffer, "Sphoeroides sechurae" Hildebrand, 1946
* Bandtail puffer, "Sphoeroides spengleri" (Bloch, 1785)
* Checkered puffer, "Sphoeroides testudineus" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Pygmy puffer, "Sphoeroides trichocephalus" (Cope, 1870)
* Bearded puffer, "Sphoeroides tyleri" Shipp, 1972
* Speckled puffer, "Sphoeroides yergeri" Shipp, 1972

References