Sphoeroides
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Sphoeroides
Sphoeroides pachygaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Tetraodontidae Genus: Sphoeroides Anonymous, 1798[1]
Species
See text.

Sphoeroides is a genus of pufferfishes.^[2]

Species

• Sphoeroides andersonianus Morrow, 1957
• Narrow-headed puffer, Sphoeroides angusticeps (Jenyns, 1842)
• Bullseye puffer, Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns, 1842)
• Sphoeroides cheesemanii (Clarke, 1897)
• Marbled puffer, Sphoeroides dorsalis Longley, 1934
• Sphoeroides georgemilleri Shipp, 1972
• Green puffer, Sphoeroides greeleyi (Gilbert, 1900)
• Slick puffer, Sphoeroides kendalli Meek & Hildebrand, 1928
• Naked puffer, Sphoeroides lispus Walker, 1996
• Longnose puffer, Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner, 1870)
• Northern puffer, Sphoeroides maculatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
• Guinean puffer, Sphoeroides marmoratus (Lowe, 1838)
• Southern puffer, Sphoeroides nephelus (Goode & Bean, 1882)
• Sphoeroides nitidus Griffin, 1921
• Blunthead puffer, Sphoeroides pachygaster (Müller & Troschel, 1848)
• Least puffer, Sphoeroides parvus Shipp & Yerger, 1969
• Sphoeroides rosenblatti Bussing, 1996
• Peruvian puffer, Sphoeroides sechurae Hildebrand, 1946
• Bandtail puffer, Sphoeroides spengleri (Bloch, 1785)
• Checkered puffer, Sphoeroides testudineus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Pygmy puffer, Sphoeroides trichocephalus (Cope, 1870)
• Bearded puffer, Sphoeroides tyleri Shipp, 1972
• Speckled puffer, Sphoeroides yergeri Shipp, 1972

References

1. ^ An anonymous review of volume I of Lacépède's Histoire naturelle des poissons (in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, 1798, columns 673–680) was apparently the first publication to Latinize several of Lacépède's genera; in this case Lacépède's name was Sphéroïdes.
2. ^ "Sphoeroides". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.