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Milkspotted puffer

Characteristics

  • Recorded singly and in small groups.
  • Shy and will swim away immediately if frightened.
  • Poisonous. Tetrodotoxin is recorded in the skin, ovaries, liver and muscles.
  • Feeds on benthic invertebrates.

Description

  • Body grey to brown ventrally and belly is white, with a broad yellow band in between.
  • White oval spots on the upper body readily distinguishes the species from the Hong Kong pufferfish, on which the patterns are irregular.
  • Body covered in prickles.

Common Name: Milkspotted puffer

Family Common Name: Pufferfishes

Family: Tetraodontidae

Scientific Name: Chelonodon patoca___(Hamilton, 1822)

Genus: Chelonodon

Maximum Length: 38 cm (Standard Length)

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未評估
Not Evaluated (ne)
數據缺乏
Data Deficient (dd)
無危
Least Concern (lc)
近危
Near Threatened (nt)
易危
Vulnerable (vu)
瀕危
Endangered (en)
極危
Critically Endangered (cr)
絕滅
Extinct (ex)
Milkspotted puffer

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