Carinotetraodon
Carinotetraodon is a polyphyletic genus of small freshwater pufferfish found in South and Southeast Asia.[1]Several species have commercial importance as aquarium fish.
| Carinotetraodon | |
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| Juvenile dwarf pufferfish (C. travancoricus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Tetraodontidae |
| Subfamily: | Tetraodontinae |
| Genus: | Carinotetraodon Benl, 1957 |
| Species | |
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6, see text. | |
Species
There are 6 recognized species in the genus:[2][1]
- Carinotetraodon borneensis (Regan, 1903)
- Carinotetraodon imitator Britz & Kottelat, 1999 (dwarf Malabar pufferfish)
- Carinotetraodon irrubesco H. H. Tan, 1999 (red-tail dwarf pufferfish)
- Carinotetraodon lorteti (Tirant, 1885) (redeye pufferfish)
- Carinotetraodon salivator K. K. P. Lim & Kottelat, 1995 (striped red-eye pufferfish)
- Carinotetraodon travancoricus (Hora & K. K. Nair, 1941) (Malabar pufferfish, dwarf pufferfish, pea pufferfish)
References
- Sathyajith, C.; Yamanoue, Y.; Yokobori, S.; Thampy, S.; Vattiringal Jayadradhan, R.K. (December 2019). "Mitogenome analysis of dwarf pufferfish (Carinotetraodon travancoricus) endemic to southwest India and its implications in the phylogeny of Tetraodontidae". Journal of Genetics. 98 (5): 98–105. doi:10.1007/s12041-019-1151-9.
- Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. Carinotetraodon. FishBase. 2011.
Further reading
- Ebert, K. Aqualog: The Puffers of Fresh and Brackish Waters. ISBN 3-931702-60-X
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