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Bandtail puffer
Sphoeroides spengleri
- Saltwater
- Max length
- 30 cm
Classification
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Sphoeroides
Distribution
- Atlantic, Eastern Central
- Atlantic, Southwest
- Atlantic, Western Central
About the bandtail puffer
The bandtail puffer (Sphoeroides spengleri) is a species in the family Tetraodontidae, or pufferfishes. It can grow to a length of about 30 cm and is common in the Caribbean and observed from Massachusetts, USA in the north to Santa Catarina, Brazil in the south.
Description from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA.
Where the bandtail puffer lives
Distribution data from GBIF (DOI: 10.15468/dl.8rzs8d).
Also known as
- Sferynka trująca
- Botete collarete
- Amerikanpallokala
- البخاخ باندتيل
- 帶尾圓魨
Where to catch bandtail puffer
- Cape Fear River United States River · North Carolina
- Florida Bay (Everglades) United States Bay · Florida
- Florida Keys United States Coast · Florida
- Galveston Bay United States Bay · Texas
- Lake Pontchartrain United States Lake · Louisiana
- Port Aransas United States Coast · Texas
