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Arothron hispidus
Description
Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758).
Stripebelly Puffer or White-spotted Pufferfish. To 52 cm (20.5 in) TL (Kulbicki et al. 2005). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Yonaguni-jima Island, Japan (Koeda et al. 2016); Todos Santos area (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and tip of Baja California to Colombia (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); not in Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 122 m (400 ft) (min.: Kwun et al. 2017; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Arothron
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- hispidus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Kulbicki, M., Guillemoto, N. & Amand, M. (2005) A general approach to length-weight relationships for New Caledonian lagoon fishes. Cybium, 29, 235 - 252.
- Koeda, K., Hibino, Y., Yoshida, T., Kimura, Y., Miki, R., Kunishima, T., Sasaki, D., Furukawa, T., Sakurai, M., Eguchi, K., Suzuki, H., Inaba, T., Uejo, T., Tanaka, S., Fujisawa, M., Wada, H. & Uchiyama, T. (2016) Annotated Checklist of Fishes of Yonaguni-jima Island, the Westernmost Island in Japan. Kagoshima University Museum, Korimoto, Kagoshima.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Kwun, H. J., Park, J., Kim, H. S., Kim, J. - H. & Park, H. - S. (2017) Checklist of the tidal pool fishes of Jeju Island, Korea. ZooKeys, 709, 135 - 154. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 709.14711
- Weijerman, M., Gruss, A., Dove, D., Asher, J., Williams, I. D., Kelley, C. & Drazen, J. (2019) Shining a light on the composition and distribution patterns of mesophotic and subphotic fish communities in Hawai'i. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 630, 161 - 182. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 13135