Southern puffer

Southern puffer
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Tetraodontidae
Genus: Sphoeroides
Species:
S. nephelus
Binomial name
Sphoeroides nephelus
(Goode & T. H. Bean, 1882)

The southern puffer (Sphoeroides nephelus) is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, and possibly further south on the coast of Brazil.[1]

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Sphoeroides nephelus". FishBase. April 2013 version.


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