Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Stripebelly Puffer or White-spotted Pufferfish. To 52 cm (20.5 in) TL ( Kulbicki et al. 2005). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Yonaguni-jima Island, Japan ( Koeda et al. 2016); Todos Santos area (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and tip of Baja California to Colombia ( Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997); not in Gulf of California ( Robertson and Allen 2015). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 122 m (400 ft) (min.: Kwun et al. 2017; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).