Tetraodontidae

Wirtz, Peter, Fricke, Ronald & Biscoito, Manuel José, 2008, The coastal fishes of Madeira Island — new records and an annotated check-list, Zootaxa 1715, pp. 1-26 : 20

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.274128

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6230164

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scientific name

Tetraodontidae
status

 

Tetraodontidae View in CoL View at ENA

* Canthigaster capistrata (Lowe, 1839) —Macaronesian sharpnose puffer

Recorded from Madeira by Tortonese in Whitehead et al. (1986: 1342) and Shipp in Quéro et al. (1990: 1069) under the name Canthigaster rostrata (non Bloch, 1786). Taxonomic decision of Moura & Castro (2002: 39).

* Sphoeroides marmoratus ( Lowe, 1838 View in CoL )—Guinean puffer

Recorded from Madeira by Tortonese in Whitehead et al. (1986: 1345) under the name Sphoeroides spengleri View in CoL (non Bloch, 1792), and by Shipp in Quéro et al. (1990: 1071) under the actual name.

* Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Oceanic puffer

Lowe, R. T. (1838) Piscium Maderensium species quaedam novae, vel minus rite cognitae, breviter descriptae. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 6, 195 - 202, 5 pls.

Moura, R. L. & Castro, R. M. (2002) Revision of Atlantic sharpnose pufferfishes (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae: Canthigaster), with description of three new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 115 (1), 32 - 50.

Quero, J. C., Hureau, J. C., Karrer, C., Post, A. & Saldanha, L. (1990) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic. 3 volumes. Lisbon.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Tetraodontiformes

Family

Tetraodontidae

Genus

Canthigaster