Torquigener flavimaculosus

Torquigener flavimaculosus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tetraodontoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Eupercaria Ordo: Tetraodontiformes Subordo: Tetraodontoidei

Familia: Tetraodontidae
Genus: Torquigener
Species: Torquigener flavimaculosus

Name

Torquigener flavimaculosus Hardy & Randall, 1983

Holotype: BPBM 19822. Paratypes: BMNH 1925.9.19.145 (1), 1925.12.31.67 (1), 1939.5.24.1859 (1); BPBM 21511 (3), 28189 (2); CAS 51287 (1); HUJ 6377 (10), 6509 (3), 10901 (1); NMNZ P.13135 (1, c&s); SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 17281 (1); USNM 238947 (1). Type catalogues: Hardy 1990:15, Golani 2006:35.

Type locality: Northwestern shore of Gulf of Aqaba, Nuweiba El Muzeini, Egypt, Red Sea, depth 3 meters.

References

• Golani, D. 2006. An annotated list of types in the Hebrew University fish collection. Haasiana: a newsletter of the biological collections of the Hebrew University 2006(3): 20–40. Reference page.  [see page 35.]
• Hardy, G.S. & Randall, J.E. 1983. Description of a new species of pufferfish (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from the Red Sea and adjacent waters. Israel Journal of Zoology 32(1): 13–20, 1 pl. Reference page. 
• Hardy, G.S. 1990. Fish types in the National Museum of New Zealand. National Museum of New Zealand, Miscellaneous Series 21: 1–17. Reference page.  [see page 15.]
• Katsanevakis, S., Bogucarskis, K., Gatto, F., Vandekerkhove, J., Deriu, I. & Cardoso A.C. 2012. Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records 1: 235–245. DOI: 10.3391/bir.2012.1.4.01 Reference page. 

Links

• Torquigener flavimaculosus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on July 9, 2019.
• Torquigener flavimaculosus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Torquigener flavimaculosus in the World Register of Marine Species

Vernacular names

العربية: Hadroom
français: Tétrodon constellé
Türkçe: Cüce balon baligi

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