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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
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| name = Prickly puffer
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▲| genus_authority = [[Gabriel Bibron|Bibron]], 1855
▲| binomial = ''Ephippion guttifer''
▲| binomial_authority = ([[Edward Turner Bennett|E. T. Bennett]], 1831)
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
Family: | Tetraodontidae |
Genus: | Ephippion Bibron, 1855 |
Species: | E. guttifer
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Binomial name | |
Ephippion guttifer (E. T. Bennett, 1831)
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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.
References[edit]
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Ephippion guttifer" in FishBase. October 2012 version.