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Guinean puffer

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Guinean puffer
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Tetraodontidae
Genus: Sphoeroides
Species: S. marmoratus
Binomial name
Sphoeroides marmoratus
(R. T. Lowe, 1838)

The Guinean puffer (Sphoeroides marmoratus) is a species of the family Tetraodontidae, or pufferfishes. Found in the eastern Atlantic from Portugal to Angola, including Madeira, the Azores, Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, it has been recently recorded on rare, distinct occasions in the Alboran Sea, western Mediterranean Sea.

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Sphoeroides". FishBase. June 2008 version.
  2. Atlas of Exotic Fishes in the Mediterranean Sea (Sphoeroides marmoratus). 2nd Edition. 2021. 366p. CIESM Publishers, Paris, Monaco.https://ciesm.org/atlas/fishes_2nd_edition/Sphoeroides_marmoratus.pdf

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Taxon identifiers
Sphoeroides marmoratus


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