Animalia > Chordata > Tetraodontiformes > Tetraodontidae > Torquigener > Torquigener pleurogramma

Torquigener pleurogramma (Weeping toado; Striped toadfish; Banded toadfish; Common blowfish)

Synonyms: Spheroides lacrimosus; Sphoeroides pleurogramma; Tetrodon pleurogramma
Language: Finnish; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

Torquigener pleurogramma, commonly known as the weeping toadfish, is a species of fish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is found in the coastal waters of Australia. Its flesh is highly toxic. Charles Tate Regan described the species in 1903. Early records in Australian waters of the orange-spotted toadfish (Torquigener hypselogeneion) refer to the weeping toadfish. Other common names for Torquigener pleurogramma include banded toadfish and common blowfish. It can be distinguished from the orange-spotted toadfish (which is not found in Australian waters) by its more prominent spines.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Hiatula biradiata[1]
Tanais dulongii[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Bianium plicitum[2]
Cryptocaryon irritans[3]
Nybelinia lingualis[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Fish diets and food webs in the Swan–Canning estuary, River Science July 2009, Department of Water, Government of Western Australia
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 3Species 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