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Tetraodontidae
masked puffer
Arothron diadematus
Thirty Centimeters Pufferfish from the Indian Ocean
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
MediumThe masked puffer (Arothron diadematus) is a pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Arothron
- Maximum length
- 30 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea. Very closely related to and considered by some authors conspecific with the Indo-Pacific Arothron nigropunctatus (Bloch & Schneider).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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