Tetraodontidae

Aziz's toby

Canthigaster aziz

Pufferfish from Three Hundred Fifteen Meters

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• West Asia
• Compressed cross-section
• Small
• Tropical fish

Canthigaster aziz, known as Aziz's toby is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. It was described in 2020 by Keiichi Matsuura, Sergey V. Bogorodsky, Ahmad O. Mal, and Tilman J. Alpermann based on a single specimen collected from the northern Red Sea off of Saudi Arabia. It was trawled from a depth of 315 m (1033 ft), which is reportedly the second highest depth at which any fish of the genus Canthigaster has been collected.