Tetraodontidae

Flavimaculosus Puffer

Torquigener flavimaculosus

Rapid body inflation when threatened

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Africa
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Torquigener flavimaculosus is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, capable of very rapid body inflation when threatened. Native to the Western Indian Ocean, it is also found in the Indo Pacific from the Persian Gulf to the Seychelles. Recorded first in the Mediterranean Sea in 1987, following a likely migration through the Suez Canal, it is now expanding westward.