Tetraodon

Tetraodon Fossil range: Middle Miocene to Present[1]
Giant freshwater pufferfish Tetraodon mbu
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Tetraodontidae Genus: Tetraodon
Species
See text.

Tetradon

Tetraodon is the largest genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae). Its members have a wide distribution, from Africa to Southeast Asia. Tetraodon nigroviridis has had its genome sequenced.

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

References

1. ^ 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 on 2008-01-08. 

• "Tetraodon". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.