Animalia > Chordata > Tetraodontiformes > Tetraodontidae > Arothron > Arothron meleagris

Arothron meleagris (Whitespotted pufferfish; White-spotted puffer; White-spotted balloon; Velcro-fish; Spotted puffer; Guinea-fowl pufferfish; Guineafowl puffer; Guineafowl blaasop)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Arothron meleagris, commonly known as the guineafowl puffer or golden puffer, is a pufferfish from the Indo-Pacific, and Eastern Pacific. It is occasionally harvested for the aquarium trade. It reaches 50 cm in length. \n* Yellow form \n* Dark form
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

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Parasitized by 
Dissonus similis[4]

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♦ 1A test of the Menge-Sutherland model of community organization in a tropical rocky intertidal food web, Bruce A. Menge, Jane Lubchenco, Stephen D. Gaines, Linda R. Ashkenas, Oecologia (Berlin) (1986) 71: 75-89
♦ 2STOMACH CONTENTS AND FEEDING OBSERVATIONS OF SOME EASTER ISLAND FISHES, LOUIS H. DISALVO, JOHN E. RANDALL, AND ALFREDO CEA, ATOLL RESEARCH BULLETIN NO. 548, 2007
♦ 3Food-Web Structure and Dynamics of Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs: Panamá and Galápagos Islands, Peter W. Glynn, Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Reefs, eds. Tim R. McClanahan & George M. Branch, p. 185-208 (2008)
♦ 4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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