Tetraodon

Tetraodon Temporal range: Middle Miocene to present [1]
Mbu pufferfish (T. mbu)
Fahaka pufferfish (T. lineatus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Tetraodontidae
Subfamily:	Tetraodontinae
Genus:	Tetraodon Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Tetraodon lineatus Linnaeus, 1758
Native distribution of Tetraodon species (both extinct and extant)

Tetraodon is a genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae) found in freshwater in Africa. It is the type genus of the family and historically included numerous other species; several Asian species were moved to the genera Dichotomyctere , Leiodon and Pao in 2013. ^{[2] [3]} The genus name comes from Ancient Greek τετρα- (tetra-), meaning "four", and ὀδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth", ^[4] referring to the genus' four teeth.

Species

There are 6 recognized species in this genus: ^{[2] [3]}

• Tetraodon duboisi Poll, 1959
• Tetraodon lineatus Linnaeus, 1758 (Fahaka pufferfish, Nile pufferfish, lineatus puffer or globe fish)
• Tetraodon mbu Boulenger, 1899 (mbu pufferfish or giant pufferfish)
• Tetraodon miurus Boulenger, 1902 (Congo pufferfish or potato pufferfish)
• Tetraodon pustulatus A. D. Murray, 1857 (Cross River pufferfish)
• Tetraodon schoutedeni Pellegrin, 1926

References

1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
2. Kottelat, M. (2013). The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No. 27: 1–663.
3. Eschmeyer, W. N., R. Fricke, and R. van der Laan (18 February 2017). Catalog of Fishes. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
4. Christopher Scharpf (5 September 2024). "Order TETRAODONTIFORMES: Families TRIODONTIDAE, TRIACANTHIDAE, TRIACANTHODIDAE, DIODONTIDAE and TETRAODONTIDAE". Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 20 October 2024.