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Updated 6/28/2016

Family Tetraodontidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Arothron nigropunctatus

Wakatobi, Indonesia

 

Sunabe, Okinawa, 15 feet


Misool, Indonesia

Pura, Indonesia


Paradise Taveuni, Fiji

Palau


Palau
   

BLACK-SPOTTED PUFFER

Common on coral reefs in shallow water.  Feeds upon branching coral and invertebrates.  Variable, gray, brown, or yellow with black spots.  Attains 13 inches.  East Africa to Okinawa and Samoa.