Arothron meleagris (Anonymous, 1798)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 225

Arothron meleagris (Anonymous, 1798) .

Guineafowl Puffer or Guineafowl Pufferfish. To 45 cm TL (17.7 in) TL ( Kuiter and Tonozuka 2001). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Ogasawara Islands, Japan (Yamada in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos area (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); tip of Baja California into central and southern Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2002) to Peru ( Pequeño 1989), including Islas Galápagos, and other offshore islands ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: 1–144 (3–472 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019). The original description is usually ascribed to Lacepède; Fricke et al. (2020) explain why Anonymous is correct.