Carinotetraodon

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Tetraodontiformes
Subordo: Tetraodontoidei

Familia: Tetraodontidae
Genus: Carinotetraodon
Species: C. borneensis – C. imitator – C. irrubesco – C. lorteti – C. salivator – C. travancoricus
Name

Carinotetraodon Benl, 1957

Type species: Carinotetraodon chlupatyi Benl, 1957
References

Benl, G. 1957. Carinotetraodon chlupatyi nov. gen., nov. spec., ein Kugelfisch mit Kamm und Kiel [Pisces, Fam. Tetraodontidae]. Opuscula Zoologica 5: 1–4.
Carinotetraodon and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Carinotetraodon is a polyphyletic genus of small freshwater pufferfish found in South and Southeast Asia.[1]Several species have commercial importance as aquarium fish.
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.