Tetraodon
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| Tetraodon Temporal range: Middle Miocene to Present[1] |
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| Nile puffer | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Tetraodontidae |
| Genus: | Tetraodon |
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Tetraodon is the largest genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae). Its 23 members have a wide distribution, from Africa to Southeast Asia. Tetraodon nigroviridis has had its genome sequenced.
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[edit] Species
- Tetraodon abei (Roberts, 1998)
- Tetraodon baileyi (Sontirat, 1989)
- Tetraodon barbatus (Roberts, 1998)
- Tetraodon biocellatus, Figure 8 puffer or Eyespot puffer (Tirant, 1885)
- Tetraodon cambodgiensis (Chabanaud, 1923)
- Tetraodon cochinchinensis (Steindachner, 1866)
- Tetraodon cutcutia, Common puffer or Ocellated puffer (Hamilton, 1822)
- Tetraodon duboisi (Poll, 1959)
- Tetraodon erythrotaenia or Red-striped toadfish (Bleeker, 1853)
- Tetraodon fluviatilis or Green puffer (Hamilton, 1822)
- Tetraodon implutus (Jenyns, 1842)
- Tetraodon kretamensis (Inger, 1953)
- Tetraodon leiurus (Bleeker, 1851)
- Tetraodon lineatus, Nile puffer or Fahaka puffer (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Tetraodon mbu, Giant freshwater puffer or Mbu puffer (Boulenger, 1899)
- Tetraodon miurus, Potato puffer or Congo puffer (Boulenger, 1902)
- Green spotted puffer, Tetraodon nigroviridis (Marion de Procé, 1822)
- King Kong pufferfish or humpback pufferfish, Tetraodon palembangensis Bleeker, 1852
- Redline pufferfish, Tetraodon pustulatus Murray, 1857
- Tetraodon sabahensis Dekkers, 1975
- Tetraodon schoutedeni Pellegrin, 1926
- Tetraodon suvattii Sontirat, 1989
- Tetraodon waandersii Bleeker, 1853
[edit] Formerly in Tetraodon
The two species in genus Tetractenos (T. glaber and T. hamiltoni) were formerly classified in Tetraodon.
[edit] References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). Species of Tetraodon in FishBase. May 2006 version.
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