Diagnostic Description
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Body covered with prickles (Ref. 559). Dark bars on side of head and below pectoral fins; juvenile specimens from the Pacific with longitudinal dark stripes on belly (Ref. 4919).Description: Characterized further by pale grey to brown body color, grading to white on ventral surface; pectoral fin base surrounded by large yellowish-brown to nearly black spot; black-edged yellow tail; sometimes with mottled pattern; short and obtuse snout, 2.2-2.4 in head length; bony interorbital width 2.6-3.1 in head length; rounded caudal fin, length about 2.6-3.6 in SL (Ref. 90102).
Life Cycle
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Oviparous (Ref. 205).
Morphology
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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 11; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 9 - 17
Trophic Strategy
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Inhabits weedy areas, often in estuaries; seagrass beds (Ref. 41878) and mangrove areas in 1-1.5 m. Specimens caught by trawling over silty bottoms in 17 m. (Ref. 9137).
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- Grace Tolentino Pablico
Biology
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Inhabits weedy areas, often in estuaries; seagrass beds (Ref. 41878) and mangrove areas in 1-1.5 m. Solitary (Ref. 90102). Specimens caught by trawling over silty bottoms in 17 m. (Ref. 9137).
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- Estelita Emily Capuli
Importance
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fisheries: minor commercial; aquarium: public aquariums; price category: very high; price reliability: very questionable: based on ex-vessel price for species in this family
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- Estelita Emily Capuli
Comprehensive Description
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Arothron immaculatus (Bloch)
The posteroventral part of A 1α is expanded along the floor of the orbit, and A 1α covers A 2α laterally. A 2β is well developed, and A 3 is much reduced (particularly dorsally). The anterior part of the dilatator operculi inserts on the subopercle and opercle.
The posterodorsal bundle of the hyohyoidei adductores attaches to the anteroventral face of the supracleithrum.
The fibers of levator externus I insert only on epibranchial 1, and adductores II and V are absent.
The residual inclinator analis has fused with the obliquus inferioris, and the first and last anal fin rays have inclinators attaching to their bases.
The hypochordal longitudinalis is as for A. honckenii. The single tendon of the transversus caudalis attaches to the base of ray V 2. The flexor ventralis attaches to the bases of rays V 1–5.
The posterodorsomedial bundle of the obliquus inferioris fades into an aponeurotic sheet at the level of the anal fin, the sheet attaching to the haemal arches of the thirteenth and fourteenth vertebrae.
- bibliographic citation
- Winterbottom, Richard. 1974. "The familial phylogeny of the Tetraodontiformes (Acanthopterygii: Pisces) as evidenced by their comparative myology." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-201. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.155
分布
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分布於印度-西太平洋區，西起紅海、非洲東岸，東至印尼，北至日本南部。台灣主要分布於南部、北部及小琉球海域。
利用
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肝臟及卵巢具劇毒，不可食用。常被當做觀賞用魚於水族館展示。
描述
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體長橢圓形，體頭部粗圓，尾柄側扁。體側下緣無縱行皮褶。口小，端位；上下頜各有2個喙狀大牙板。吻短，圓鈍。眼中大，側上位。無鼻孔，兩側各具一個叉狀鼻突起。體背腹面，除了尾柄後半部(裸露區腹面較大)、口、眼、背鰭、臀鰭、胸鰭與鰓孔外，全身佈滿小棘。鰓膜黑色。背鰭圓形至稍微尖形，位於體後部，具軟條9-11；臀鰭與其同形，具軟條9-11；無腹鰭；胸鰭寬短，後緣呈圓弧形；尾鰭寬大，呈圓弧形。體背部灰褐色，腹面白色；鰓孔與胸鰭基通常顏色較深；上唇邊緣白色。背鰭、臀鰭與尾鰭淺灰棕色，尾鰭外緣黑色；胸鰭灰白色。
棲地
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主要棲息於潟湖、紅樹林區、海藻床區及河口域。主要以藻類、碎屑及小型底棲無脊椎動物為食。
Arothron immaculatus
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Arothron immaculatus, the immaculate puffer or yellow-eyed puffer, is a pale greyish to brownish pufferfish from the Indo-West Pacific. It is a species of marine fish in the family Tetraodontidae.
Description
The immaculate puffer is a pufferfish and has a rounded body with a short tail. They have no scales or clear lateral line. They are grey or light brown, though they have the ability to change this to a mottled grey-green coloration presumably used for camouflage.[2] The lips and iris of the immaculate pufferfish are yellow. The caudal fin is yellow, bordered with black.
Arothron immaculatus in camouflage.
Distribution
The immaculate puffer is distributed in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean from the northern coast of Australia throughout Indonesia and even as far west as Madagascar and the east coast of Africa. They are usually found on sandy bottoms close to reefs and in lagoons to a depth of 30 meters.[2] Immaculate puffers are often found hunting in patches of isolated rubble and in fields of sea grasses.[2]
Diet
The immaculate puffer is primarily carnivorous but has been reported feeding on sea grasses and mangroves as well.[3] Their normal diet consists of crustaceans and mollusks.[2]
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Arothron immaculatus: Brief Summary
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Arothron immaculatus, the immaculate puffer or yellow-eyed puffer, is a pale greyish to brownish pufferfish from the Indo-West Pacific. It is a species of marine fish in the family Tetraodontidae.
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Description
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Inhabits weedy areas, often in estuaries; seagrass beds and mangrove areas in 1-1.5 m. Specimens caught by trawling over silty bottoms in 17 m.
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023).
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