Blunthead puffer

Blunthead puffer
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Tetraodontidae
Genus: Sphoeroides
Species: S. pachygaster
Binomial name
Sphoeroides pachygaster
(J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1848)
Synonyms
  • Tetraodon pachygaster
  • Liosaccus pachygaster
  • Liosaccus aerobaticus
  • Sphoeroides cutaneus
  • Sphoeroides dubius

The blunthead puffer, Sphoeroides pachygaster, is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, found circumglobally in tropical and temperate seas, at depths between 50 and 500 m. Its length is up to 40 cm.

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