| Prickly toadfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Tetraodontidae |
| Genus: | Contusus |
| Species: | C. richei |
| Binomial name | |
| 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.