Prickly toadfish
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| Species: | C. richei
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| Contusus richei (Fréminville, 1813)
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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; Pauly, Daniel (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