- Prickly toadfish
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Prickly toadfish Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Tetraodontidae Genus: Contusus Species: C. richei Binomial name Contusus richei
(Fréminville, 1813)The prickly toadfish, Contusus richei, is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the southwest Pacific Ocean, at depths down to 50 m. Its length is up to 25 cm.
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Contusus richei" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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