Sphoeroides
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| Sphoeroides | |
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| Sphoeroides dorsalis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Tetraodontidae |
| Genus: | Sphoeroides Anonymous, 1798[1] |
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Sphoeroides is a genus of pufferfishes.[2]
[edit] Species
Listed alphabetically by binomial name.[3]
- Sphoeroides andersonianus Morrow, 1957
- Sphoeroides angusticeps (Jenyns, 1842) – Narrow-headed puffer
- Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns, 1842) – Bullseye puffer or Gulf puffer
- Sphoeroides cheesemanii (Clarke, 1897)
- Sphoeroides dorsalis Longley, 1934 – Marbled puffer
- Sphoeroides georgemilleri Shipp, 1972
- Sphoeroides greeleyi (Gilbert, 1900) – Green puffer
- Sphoeroides kendalli Meek & Hildebrand, 1928 – Slick puffer
- Sphoeroides lispus Walker, 1996 – Naked puffer
- Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner, 1870) – Longnose puffer
- Sphoeroides maculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) – Northern puffer
- Sphoeroides marmoratus (Lowe, 1838) – Guinean puffer
- Sphoeroides nephelus (Goode & Bean, 1882) – Southern puffer
- Sphoeroides nitidus Griffin, 1921
- Sphoeroides pachygaster (Müller & Troschel, 1848) – Blunthead puffer or Balloonfish
- Sphoeroides parvus Shipp & Yerger, 1969 – Least puffer
- Sphoeroides rosenblatti Bussing, 1996
- Sphoeroides sechurae Hildebrand, 1946 – Peruvian puffer
- Sphoeroides spengleri (Bloch, 1785) – Bandtail puffer
- Sphoeroides testudineus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Checkered puffer
- Sphoeroides trichocephalus (Cope, 1870) – Pygmy puffer
- Sphoeroides tyleri Shipp, 1972 – Bearded puffer
- Sphoeroides yergeri Shipp, 1972 – Speckled puffer
[edit] References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). Species of Sphoeroides in FishBase. May 2006 version.
- ^ Sphoeroides, EOL
