Lagocephalus
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Lagocephalus".

Lagocephalus
Lagocephalus laevigatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Tetraodontidae Genus: Lagocephalus Swainson , 1839
Species
See text.

Lagocephalus is a genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae).

Species

• Lagocephalus gloveri Abe & Tabeta, 1983
• Diamondback puffer, Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915
• Smooth blaasop, Lagocephalus inermis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)
• Smooth puffer, Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnaeus, 1766)
• Oceanic puffer, Lagocephalus lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Lagocephalus lagocephalus oceanicus Jordan & Evermann, 1903
• Green rough-backed puffer, Lagocephalus lunaris (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
• Silverstripe blaasop, Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789)
• Half-smooth golden pufferfish, Lagocephalus spadiceus (Richardson, 1845)
• Lagocephalus suezensis Clark & Gohar, 1953
• Lagocephalus wheeleri Abe, Tabeta & Kitahama, 1984

References

• "Lagocephalus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.