Sphoeroides

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Sphoeroides
Sphoeroides pachygaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Tetraodontidae
Genus: Sphoeroides
Anonymous, 1798[1]
Species

See text.

Sphoeroides is a genus of pufferfishes.[2]

[edit] 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

[edit] References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Sphoeroides". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
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