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| name = Prickly puffer
| name = Prickly puffer
| image = Ephippion guttifer crop.JPG
| image = Ephippion guttifer crop.JPG
| parent_authority = [[Gabriel Bibron|Bibron]], 1855
| status = NE
| taxon = Ephippion guttifer
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| authority = ([[Edward Turner Bennett|E. T. Bennett]], 1831)
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| subphylum = [[Vertebrate|Vertebrata]]
| classis = [[Actinopterygii]]
| ordo = [[Tetraodontiformes]]
| familia = [[Tetraodontidae]]
| genus = '''''Ephippion'''''
| genus_authority = [[Gabriel Bibron|Bibron]], 1855
| species = '''''E. guttifer'''''
| binomial = ''Ephippion guttifer''
| binomial_authority = ([[Edward Turner Bennett|E. T. Bennett]], 1831)
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Latest revision as of 01:51, 31 May 2022

Prickly puffer
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Tetraodontidae
Genus: Ephippion
Bibron, 1855
Species:
E. guttifer
Binomial name
Ephippion guttifer

Ephippion guttifer, commonly known as the prickly puffer, is a species of pufferfish native to the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Gibraltar to Angola. This species grows to a length of 80 centimetres (31 in) TL. It is of importance to commercial fisheries and is popular as a gamefish. This species has the ability to get prickly when it puffs up. It is the only known member of the monotypic genus Ephippion.

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