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Sphoeroides is a genus of pufferfishes.[2]
Species
- Sphoeroides andersonianus Morrow, 1957
- Narrow-headed puffer, Sphoeroides angusticeps (Jenyns, 1842)
- Bullseye puffer, Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns, 1842)
- Sphoeroides cheesemanii (Clarke, 1897)
- Marbled puffer, Sphoeroides dorsalis Longley, 1934
- Sphoeroides georgemilleri Shipp, 1972
- Green puffer, Sphoeroides greeleyi (Gilbert, 1900)
- Slick puffer, Sphoeroides kendalli Meek & Hildebrand, 1928
- Naked puffer, Sphoeroides lispus Walker, 1996
- Longnose puffer, Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner, 1870)
- Northern puffer, Sphoeroides maculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
- Guinean puffer, Sphoeroides marmoratus (Lowe, 1838)
- Southern puffer, Sphoeroides nephelus (Goode & Bean, 1882)
- Sphoeroides nitidus Griffin, 1921
- Blunthead puffer, Sphoeroides pachygaster (Müller & Troschel, 1848)
- Least puffer, Sphoeroides parvus Shipp & Yerger, 1969
- Sphoeroides rosenblatti Bussing, 1996
- Peruvian puffer, Sphoeroides sechurae Hildebrand, 1946
- Bandtail puffer, Sphoeroides spengleri (Bloch, 1785)
- Checkered puffer, Sphoeroides testudineus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pygmy puffer, Sphoeroides trichocephalus (Cope, 1870)
- Bearded puffer, Sphoeroides tyleri Shipp, 1972
- Speckled puffer, Sphoeroides yergeri Shipp, 1972
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.
- ^ "Sphoeroides". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
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