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Common puffer
Ephippion guttifer
- Saltwater
- Least Concern
- Max length
- 80 cm
Classification
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Ephippion
Distribution
- Atlantic, Eastern Central
About the common puffer
Ephippion guttifer, commonly known as the prickly puffer, is a species of pufferfish native to the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Gibraltar to Angola. This species grows to a length of 80 centimetres (31 in) TL. It is of importance to commercial fisheries and is popular as a gamefish. This species has the ability to get prickly when it puffs up. It is the only known member of the monotypic genus Ephippion.
Description from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA.
Where the common puffer lives
Distribution data from GBIF (DOI: 10.15468/dl.8rzs8d).
Also known as
- Globefish
- Prickly puffer
- Swamp
- Tamboril de tierra
- Compère à Points Blancs
- Faux perroquet
- Perroquet
- Poisson lampe
- Poisson-globe
- Tétraodon
