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brown-lined puffer (Canthigaster rivulata)
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Ecological Illustration of brown-lined puffer (Canthigaster rivulata)
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Tetraodontidae

brown-lined puffer

Canthigaster rivulata

Side bands join before gill slit

  • Brown
  • Tropical
  • Transcontinental
  • Marine fish
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Africa
  • East Asia
  • Oceania
  • Deep-bodied
  • Medium
  • Tropical fish

brown-lined puffer is known from Indo-Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in reef habitat.

Class
Teleosts
Order
Puffers, Triggerfishes, and Allies
Family
Tetraodontidae
Genus
Canthigaster
Water type
Marine
Body shape
deep_bodied
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