Sphoeroides

Sphoeroides
Sphoeroides dorsalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Tetraodontidae
Subfamily:	Tetraodontinae
Genus:	Sphoeroides Anonymous (Lacépède), 1798 [1]
Species
See text.
Synonyms
CrayracionSchaeffer, 1760 (Unav.) SpheroidesLacepède, 1800 (Unav.) OrbidusRafinesque, 1815 (Unav.) CirrhisomusSwainson, 1839 LeisomusSwainson, 1839 ChelichthysMüller, 1841 (Missp.) CirrisomusBonaparte, 1841 (Missp.) CheilichthysAgassiz, 1845 (Emend.) CirrhosomusAgassiz, 1846 (Emend.) CrauraciumAgassiz, 1846 (Emend.) SphaeroidesAgassiz, 1846 (Emend.) SpheroldesAuctt. (Missp.) HolocanthusGronow, 1854 AnchisomusRichardson, 1854 StenometopeBibron, 1855 (Unav.) CrayracionBleeker, 1865 UranostomaBleeker, 1865 LiosaccusGünther, 1870 ThecapteryxFowler, 1948

Sphoeroides is a genus of pufferfishes.

Species

There are currently 25 recognized species in this genus, ^[2] which includes the three species FishBase allocates to Colomesus . ^[3]

• Sphoeroides andersonianus (Morrow, 1957)
• Sphoeroides angusticeps (Jenyns, 1842) (Narrow-headed puffer)
• Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns, 1842) (Bullseye puffer)
• Sphoeroides camila (P. H. Carvalho, Rotundo, Pitassy & I. Sazima 2023) ^[4]
• Sphoeroides dorsalis (Longley, 1934) (Marbled puffer)
• Sphoeroides georgemilleri (Shipp, 1972) (Plaincheek puffer)
• Sphoeroides greeleyi (C. H. Gilbert, 1900) (Green puffer)
• Sphoeroides kendalli (Meek & Hildebrand, 1928) (Slick puffer)
• Sphoeroides lispus (H. J. Walker, 1996) (Naked puffer)
• Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner, 1870) (Longnose puffer)
• Sphoeroides maculatus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Northern puffer)
• Sphoeroides marmoratus (R. T. Lowe, 1838) (Guinean puffer)
• Sphoeroides nephelus (Goode & T. H. Bean, 1882) (Southern puffer)
• Sphoeroides pachygaster (J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1848) (Blunthead puffer)
• Sphoeroides parvus (Shipp & Yerger, 1969) (Least puffer)
• Sphoeroides rosenblatti (W. A. Bussing, 1996)
• Sphoeroides sechurae (Hildebrand, 1946) (Peruvian puffer)
• Sphoeroides spengleri (Bloch, 1785) (Bandtail puffer)
• Sphoeroides testudineus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Checkered puffer)
• Sphoeroides trichocephalus (Cope, 1870) (Pygmy puffer)
• Sphoeroides tyleri (Shipp, 1972) (Bearded puffer)
• Sphoeroides yergeri (Shipp, 1972) (Speckled puffer)

Synonyms

• Sphoeroides nitidus (Griffin, 1921); synonym of Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Sphoeroides". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 29 March 2025.
3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Colomesus". FishBase .
4. Araujo, Gabriel S.; Kurtz, Yan R.; Sazima, Ivan; Carvalho, Pedro Hollanda; Floeter, Sergio R.; Vilasboa, Anderson; Rotundo, Matheus M.; Ferreira, Carlos E L.; Barreiros, João Pedro; Pitassy, Diane E.; Carvalho-Filho, Alfredo (2023). "Evolutionary history, biogeography, and a new species of Sphoeroides (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae): how the major biogeographic barriers of the Atlantic Ocean shaped the evolution of a pufferfish genus" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 199 (4): 978–993. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad055. hdl: 10400.3/6862 . Retrieved 10 September 2023.