Spiny blaasop
| Tylerius spinosissimus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Tetraodontidae |
| Genus: | Tylerius Hardy, 1984 |
| Species: | T. spinosissimus |
| Binomial name | |
| Tylerius spinosissimus (Regan, 1908)[1] | |
Tylerius spinosissimus , the Spiny blaasop, is a species of pufferfish. Originally native to the Indian Ocean, the southwestern Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean along the coast of South Africa,[2] it has colonised the Mediterranean Sea as a Lessepsian migrant.[3] This species grows to a length of 12 centimetres (4.7 in) TL.[2] It is the only species in its genus.[4]
References
- ↑ Nicolas Bailly (2012). Nicolas Bailly, ed. "Tylerius spinosissimus (Regan, 1908)". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Tylerius spinosissimus" in FishBase. October 2012 version.
- ↑ Maria Corsini, Panagiotis Margies, Gerasimos Kondilatos & Panos S. Economidis (2005). "Lessepsian migration of fishes to the Aegean Sea: first record of Tylerius spinosissimus (Tetraodontidae) from the Mediterranean, and six more fish records from Rhodes" (PDF). Cybium 29 (4): 347–354.
- ↑ WoRMS (2012). Nicolas Bailly, ed. "Tylerius Hardy, 1984". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
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