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Tetraodontidae
sharpnose puffer
Canthigaster rostrata
Pufferfish Reaching Twelve Centimeters
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- Deep-bodied
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
Smallsharpnose puffer is a marine fish of Western Central Atlantic. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 12 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Canthigaster
- Maximum length
- 12 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Central Atlantic: South Carolina, USA and Bermuda to Tobago and the Lesser Antilles. All Canthigaster specimens so far recorded from Madeira belong to Canthigaster capistrata (Ref. 43205 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
