Torquigener

Torquigener
Torquigener hypselogeneion
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Tetraodontidae
Subfamily:	Tetraodontinae
Genus:	Torquigener Whitley, 1930

Torquigener is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indian and Pacific oceans. Males of at least two Torquigener species are known to make elaborate circular nests on the seafloor. ^[1]

Species

Twenty species are recognized in this genus:

• Torquigener albomaculosus Matsuura, 2014 (white-spotted pufferfish) ^[2]
• Torquigener altipinnis J. D. Ogilby, 1891
• Torquigener andersonae Hardy, 1983 (Anderson's toadfish)
• Torquigener balteus Hardy, 1989 (slender blaasop)
• Torquigener brevipinnis Regan, 1903
• Torquigener flavimaculosus Hardy & J. E. Randall, 1983
• Torquigener florealis Cope, 1871
• Torquigener gloerfelti Hardy, 1984
• Torquigener heemstrai K. Matsuura, 2024
• Torquigener hicksi Hardy, 1983 (Hick's toadfish)
• Torquigener hypselogeneion Bleeker, 1852 (orange-spotted toadfish)
• Torquigener marleyi Fowler, 1929
• Torquigener pallimaculatus Hardy, 1983
• Torquigener parcuspinus Hardy, 1983 (yellow-eyed toadfish)
• Torquigener paxtoni Hardy, 1983
• Torquigener perlevis J. D. Ogilby, 1908 (spineless toadfish)
• Torquigener pleurogramma Regan, 1903 (weeping toadfish)
• Torquigener randalli Hardy, 1983 (Randall's puffer)
• Torquigener squamicauda J. D. Ogilby, 1910 (brush-tail toadfish)
• Torquigener tuberculiferus J. D. Ogilby, 1912
• Torquigener vicinus Whitley, 1930
• Torquigener whitleyi Paradice, 1927 (Whitley's toadfish)

References

1. Bond, Todd; Mueller, Robert J.; Birt, Matthew J.; Prince, Jane; Miller, Karen; Partridge, Julian C.; McLean, Dianne L. (2020). "Mystery pufferfish create elaborate circular nests at mesophotic depths in Australia". Journal of Fish Biology. 97 (5): 1401–1407. Bibcode:2020JFBio..97.1401B. doi:10.1111/jfb.14506. hdl: 10536/DRO/DU:30148257 . PMID   32820821 . Retrieved 21 May 2023.
2. Matsuura, K. (2014). "A new pufferfish of the genus Torquigener that builds "mystery circles" on sandy bottoms in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae)" . Ichthyological Research. 62 (2): 207–212. doi:10.1007/s10228-014-0428-5.