Ecolist:
Puffers & Trunkfish


Pufferfish

[Comment: all have toxic flesh; Arothron get large; Diodon prone to parasites.]

Item

Scientific Name

Location

Rating

Atlas#

Arothron / Panda Arothron diadematus Red Sea 2 647
Blue Dot Canthigaster epilamprus Hawaii 2 650
Dogface Arothron nigropunctatus Fiji/Hawaii/Coral Sea 2 646
Honeycomb Canthigaster janthinoptera Coral Sea 2 650
Longnose Canthigaster Solandri   2 653
Meleagris Arothron meleagris Mexico/Costa Rica 2 645
Porcupine Diodon hystrix   2 654
Saddle Canthigaster coronata Hawaii 2 651
Shortnose Canthigaster solandri Indian Ocean 2 653
Spiny Box Chilmycterus schoepfi Caribbean 2 655
Spotted Canthigaster jactator   2 651
Valentini Canthigaster valentini   2 651


Trunk Fish

[Comment: can release toxins in water; need small invertebrates for food.]

Item

Scientific Name

Location

Rating

Atlas#

Assorted Aulostomus chinensis   4 119
Colored Aulostomus chinensis   4 119
Australian Box Strophiurichthys robustus   4 639
Boxfish, Black (Female) Ostracion melegris Hawaii 4 638
Boxfish, Blue (Male) Ostracion melegris Hawaii 4 638
Cowfish Lactophrys quadricornis Atlantic 4 641
Cowfish, Longhorn Lactoria cornuta   4 637
Cubicus Ostracion cubicus   4 639
Flame Anaplocapros lenticularis Australia 4 637
Scribbled (Female) Ostracion solorensis Indian Ocean 4 640
Spotted Ostracion cyancurus Indian Ocean 4 640
Whitley's (Female) Ostracion whitleyi   4 640
Whitley's (Male) Ostracion whitleyi   4 640


Angel Fish
Anglers, Lions & Scorpions
Anthias
Basslets & Dottybacks


Blennies, Dragonettes & Gobies
Butterfly Fish
Clowns & Damsels
Eels, Rays & Sharks


Groupers, Grunts & Snappers
Hamlets & Hawks
Hogs & Parrots
Puffers & Trunkfish


Squirrels & Soldiers
Tangs
Triggers
Wrasse


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