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Lagocephalus
Sign in to saveLagocephalus (from Ancient Greek λαγώς (lagṓs), meaning "hare", and κεφαλή (kephalḗ), meaning "head", in reference to its rabbit-like face) is a genus of pufferfishes in the family Tetraodontidae with a circumglobal distribution.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderTetraodontiformes
- FamilyTetraodontidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 207
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Collections
- UWFC, YPM, USNM, KU, CAS, LSUMZ
- Recorded in
- United States, British West Indies, Malaysia, Bahamas, China, Mexico, India, Taiwan
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Lagocephalus (from Ancient Greek λαγώς (lagṓs), meaning "hare", and κεφαλή (kephalḗ), meaning "head", in reference to its rabbit-like face) is a genus of pufferfishes in the family Tetraodontidae with a circumglobal distribution.
==Species== There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus: left|thumb|Inflated Lagocephalus laevigatus|L. laevigatus Lagocephalus cheesemanii (Clarke, 1897) Lagocephalus gloveri Abe & Tabeta, 1983 Lagocephalus guentheri (A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915) (diamond-back puffer) Lagocephalus inermis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) (smooth blaasop) Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnaeus, 1766) (smooth puffer) Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) (oceanic puffer) Lagocephalus lunaris (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (lunartail puffer) Lagocephalus sceleratus (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) (silver-cheeked puffer) Lagocephalus spadiceus (J. Richardson, 1845) (half-smooth golden puffer) Lagocephalus suezensis (E. Clark & Gohar, 1953) Lagocephalus wheeleri Abe, Tabeta & Kitahama, 1984
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lagocephalus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.