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Lagocephalus
Genus of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lagocephalus is a genus of fish in the family Tetraodontidae (pufferfishes) with a circumglobal distribution.[1]
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Species
There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:
- Lagocephalus cheesemanii (Clarke, 1897)
- Lagocephalus gloveri Abe & Tabeta, 1983
- Lagocephalus guentheri (A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915) (diamond-back puffer)
- Lagocephalus inermis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) (smooth blaasop)
- Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnaeus, 1766) (smooth puffer)
- Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) (oceanic puffer)
- Lagocephalus lunaris (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (lunartail puffer)
- Lagocephalus sceleratus (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) (silver-cheeked puffer)
- Lagocephalus spadiceus (J. Richardson, 1845) (half-smooth golden puffer)
- Lagocephalus suezensis (E. Clark & Gohar, 1953)
- Lagocephalus wheeleri Abe, Tabeta & Kitahama, 1984
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References
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