Least puffer
Sphoeroides parvus
- Saltwater
- Max length
- 15 cm
Classification
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Sphoeroides
Distribution
- Atlantic, Western Central
About the least puffer
Least puffer is a species in the family Tetraodontidae, or pufferfishes. This species is the common bay and inshore puffer for the waters around Texas and Louisiana. It has also been found as far east as Apalachicola Bay and south to Yucatán. Mature least puffers are small, usually less than four inches (100 mm).
Description from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA.
Where the least puffer lives
Distribution data from GBIF (DOI: 10.15468/dl.8rzs8d).
Also known as
- Botete xpú
- البخاخ الاقل
- 小圓魨
Where to catch least 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