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Tetraodontiformes

Description

ORDER TETRAODONTIFORMES

Family Balisitidae

Balistes capriscus Gmelin, 1789 — Grey trigger fish

Family Tetraodontidae

Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Puffer fish

Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Smooth puffer

Not mentioned for Galicia neither by Tortonese in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al. (2003). Known by a single specimen of 51 cm TL (Figure 17) caught in July 2009 in the Cies Islands, in the mouth of the Ría de Vigo (South Galicia) (Bañón & Santás, in press).

Family Diodontidae

Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 — Spot-fin porcupinefish

Family Molidae

Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) — Sunfish Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776) — Truncated sunfish

Notes

Published as part of Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 2667 on page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276366

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Tetraodontiformes
Taxon rank
order

References

  • Quero, J. - C., Porche, P. &. Vayne, J. - J. (2003) Guide des poissons de l'Atlantique Europeen, Delachaux & Niestle Ed., 465 pp.