Spiny blaasop
| Tylerius spinosissimus | |
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| Genus: | Tylerius Hardy, 1984
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| Species: | T. spinosissimus
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Tylerius spinosissimus , the spiny blaasop, is a species of pufferfish. Originally native to the Indian Ocean, the southwestern Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean along the coast of South Africa,[2] it has colonised the Mediterranean Sea as a Lessepsian migrant.[3] This species grows to a length of 12 centimetres (4.7 in) TL.[2] It is the only species in its genus.[4]
References
- ^ Nicolas Bailly (2012). Bailly N (ed.). "Tylerius spinosissimus (Regan, 1908)". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Tylerius spinosissimus" in FishBase. October 2012 version.
- ^ Maria Corsini, Panagiotis Margies, Gerasimos Kondilatos & Panos S. Economidis (2005). "Lessepsian migration of fishes to the Aegean Sea: first record of Tylerius spinosissimus (Tetraodontidae) from the Mediterranean, and six more fish records from Rhodes" (PDF). Cybium. 29 (4): 347–354.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Bailly N, ed. (2012). "Tylerius Hardy, 1984". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
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