Arothron

Arothron
White-spotted puffer (Arothron hispidus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Tetraodontidae
Genus:	Arothron J. P. Müller, 1841
Species
See text.

Blackspotted puffer
(Arothron nigropunctatus)

Inflated Arothron

Arothron, the fat puffers,^[1] is a genus in the pufferfish family, Tetraodontidae. Arothron species are sometimes kept in aquaria. The largest species is A. stellatus, which can reach 48 inches in length.

Species

There are at least 15 recognized species in this genus:^[2]

• Arothron caeruleopunctatus Matsuura, 1994 - blue-spotted puffer
• Arothron carduus (Cantor, 1849)
• Arothron diadematus (Rüppell, 1829) - masked puffer
• Arothron firmamentum (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) - starry toado
• Arothron gillbanksii (F. E. Clarke, 1897)
• Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758) white-spotted puffer
• Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) - immaculate puffer
• Arothron inconditus J. L. B. Smith, 1958 - bellystriped blaasop
• Arothron leopardus (F. Day, 1878) - banded leopardblowfish
• Arothron manilensis (Marion de Procé, 1822) - narrow-lined puffer
• Arothron mappa (Lesson, 1831) - map puffer
• Arothron meleagris (Anonymous in Lacépède, 1798) - guineafowl puffer
• Arothron nigropunctatus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) - black-spotted puffer
• Arothron reticularis (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) - reticulated puffer
• Arothron stellatus (Anonymous in Lacépède, 1798) - stellate puffer

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