Animalia > Chordata > Tetraodontiformes > Tetraodontidae > Sphoeroides > Sphoeroides pachygaster

Sphoeroides pachygaster (Smooth pufferfish; Puffer; Bottlefish; Blunthead puffer; Blunthead blaasop; Balloonfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The blunthead puffer, Sphoeroides pachygaster, is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, found circumglobally in tropical and temperate seas, at depths between 50 and 500 m. Its length is up to 40 cm.
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Prey / Diet

Fenestraria rhopalophylla (babies toes)[1]

Predators

Hyporthodus flavolimbatus (Grouper)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Bombycirhynchus sphaerenaicum <Unverified Name>[2]
Heteronybelinia nipponica[3]
Heteronybelinia yamagutii[3]
Nybelinia strongyla[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0