Sphoeroides

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

See text.

Sphoeroides is a genus of pufferfishes.

Species

There are currently 23 recognized species in this genus:[2]

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. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Sphoeroides in FishBase. October 2012 version.
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