Tetraodon

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: Tetraodon
Species (12): T. biocellatus – T. cutcutia – T. erythrotaenia – T. fluviatilis – T. implutus – T. leiurus – T. lineatus – T. mbu – T. miurus – T. nigroviridis – T. palustris – T. pustulatus
Name

Tetraodon Linnaeus, 1758
Gender: masculine
Type species: Tetraodon lineatus Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms

Brachycephalus Hollard, 1857
Oonidus Rafinesque, 1815
Orbis Fischer, 1813
Ovoides Anonymous, 1798b
Ovoides Duméril, 1805
Ovoïdes Cuvier, 1800: table 4 -- nomen nudum
Ovum Bloch, in Schneider, 1801
Tetrodon Linnaeus, 1758

References

Anonymous; 1798a: Paris, b. Plassans: Histoire naturelle des poissons par le Cit. La Cepède. [...]. Tom. 1 [...]. Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung, 287 (24 Sept. 1798): 673–678. [Continued in Anonymous, 1798b; review of La Cepède, 1798; authorship sometimes erroneously attributed to La Cepède].
Anonymous; 1798b: Paris, b. Plassans: Histoire naturelle des poissons par le Cit. La Cepède. etc. (Beschluss der im vorigen Stücke abgebrochenen Recension]. Tom. 1. Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung, 288 (25 Sept. 1798): 681–685. [Continuation of Anonymous, 1798a; review of La Cepède, 1798; authorship sometimes erroneously attributed La Cepède].
Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542: 332. Reference page.
Kottelat, M. 2013. The fishes of the inland waters of southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibiography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 27: 1–663. PDF. Reference page.

Links

Tetraodon 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.
Tetraodon in the World Register of Marine Species

Tetraodon lineatus

Tetraodon is a genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae) found in freshwater in Africa. It is the type genus of the family and historically included numerous other species; several Asian species were only moved to the genera Dichotomyctere, Leiodon and Pao in 2013.[2][3]
Species

There are 6 recognized species in this genus:[2][3]

Tetraodon duboisi Poll, 1959
Tetraodon lineatus Linnaeus, 1758 (Fahaka pufferfish, Nile pufferfish, lineatus puffer or globe fish)
Tetraodon mbu Boulenger, 1899 (mbu pufferfish or giant pufferfish)
Tetraodon miurus Boulenger, 1902 (Congo pufferfish or potato pufferfish)
Tetraodon pustulatus A. D. Murray, 1857 (Cross River pufferfish)
Tetraodon schoutedeni Pellegrin, 1926

References

Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
Kottelat, M. (2013). The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No. 27: 1–663.
Eschmeyer, W. N., R. Fricke, and R. van der Laan (18 February 2017). Catalog of Fishes. Retrieved 18 February 2017.