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Torquigener
Sign in to saveTorquigener is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indian and Pacific oceans. Males of at least two Torquigener species are known to make elaborate circular nests on the seafloor.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderTetraodontiformes
- FamilyTetraodontidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 93
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Collections
- YPM, SIO, CAS, AM, BPBM, USNM
- Recorded in
- Sri Lanka, Australia, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Hong Kong, Japan
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- Tetraodontidae
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Torquigener is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indian and Pacific oceans. Males of at least two Torquigener species are known to make elaborate circular nests on the seafloor.
==Species== Twenty species are recognized in this genus: Torquigener albomaculosus Matsuura, 2014 (white-spotted pufferfish) Torquigener altipinnis J. D. Ogilby, 1891 Torquigener andersonae Hardy, 1983 (Anderson's toadfish) Torquigener balteus Hardy, 1989 (slender blaasop) Torquigener brevipinnis Regan, 1903 Torquigener flavimaculosus Hardy & J. E. Randall, 1983 Torquigener florealis Cope, 1871 Torquigener gloerfelti Hardy, 1984 Torquigener heemstrai K. Matsuura, 2024 Torquigener hicksi Hardy, 1983 (Hick's toadfish) Torquigener hypselogeneion Bleeker, 1852 (orange-spotted toadfish) Torquigener marleyi Fowler, 1929 Torquigener pallimaculatus Hardy, 1983 Torquigener parcuspinus Hardy, 1983 (yellow-eyed toadfish) Torquigener paxtoni Hardy, 1983 Torquigener perlevis J. D. Ogilby, 1908 (spineless toadfish) Torquigener pleurogramma Regan, 1903 (weeping toadfish) Torquigener randalli Hardy, 1983 (Randall's puffer) Torquigener squamicauda J. D. Ogilby, 1910 (brush-tail toadfish) Torquigener tuberculiferus J. D. Ogilby, 1912 Torquigener vicinus Whitley, 1930 Torquigener whitleyi Paradice, 1927 (Whitley's toadfish)
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