'' Auriglobus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include ...

pufferfishes native to

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. They generally resemble ''

Chonerhinos ''Chonerhinos naritus'', the bronze pufferfish or yellow pufferfish,Froese, R. and D. Pauly, EdsCommon names of ''Chonerhinos naritus''.FishBase. 2011. is a species of pufferfish native to Southeast Asia, where mainly found in estuarine and coast ...

'', but are considerably smaller, only reaching up to in length, and are more strongly associated with freshwater.Roberts, Tyson R. (1982). The Southeast Asian freshwater pufferfish genus Chonerhinos (Tetraodontidae), with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 43: 1-16. The different ''Auriglobus'' species are very similar in appearance — greenish-golden or yellowish-golden above and pale below — but can be separated by

morphometrics Morphometrics (from Greek μορϕή ''morphe'', "shape, form", and -μετρία ''metria'', "measurement") or morphometry refers to the quantitative analysis of ''form'', a concept that encompasses size and shape. Morphometric analyses are co ...

and

meristics Meristics is an area of ichthyology and herpetology which relates to counting quantitative features of fish and reptiles, such as the number of fins or scales. A meristic (countable trait) can be used to describe a particular species of fish, or us ...

. Until 1999, the ''Auriglobus'' species were included in ''Chonerhinos''. Kottelat, M., (1999). Nomenclature of the genera ''Barbodes'', ''Cyclocheilichthys'', ''Rasbora and ''Chonerhinos'' (Teleostei: Cyprinidae and Tetraodontidae), with comments on the definition of the first reviser. ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' 47(2): 591-600.

Species

There are five recognized species in this genus: * ''

Auriglobus amabilis ''Auriglobus amabilis'' is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is a tropical freshwater species known only from Indonesia. The species reaches 7 cm (2.8 inches) SL and feeds almost exclusively on large aquatic insect lar ...

'' ( T. R. Roberts, 1982) * ''

Auriglobus modestus ''Auriglobus modestus'', the bronze puffer or golden puffer, is a ray-finned fish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is found in the middle parts of rivers to their estuaries in southeast Asia, including Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia ...

'' (

Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher").Auriglobus nefastus ''Auriglobus nefastus'', known as the greenbottle pufferfish, is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is a freshwater species native to Asia, where it may be found from the Mekong basin to Indonesia Indonesia, officiall ...

'' ( T. R. Roberts, 1982) (greenbottle pufferfish) * ''

Auriglobus remotus ''Auriglobus remotus'' is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is a tropical freshwater species known only from Indonesia that reaches 6.2 cm (2.4 inches) SL. Like the other four members of ''Auriglobus'', it was previous ...

'' ( T. R. Roberts, 1982) * ''

Auriglobus silus ''Auriglobus silus'' is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is a tropical freshwater fish known only from Indonesia that reaches 8.2 cm (3.2 inches) SL. Like the other four members of ''Auriglobus'', it was previously cl ...

'' ( T. R. Roberts, 1982)

References

Tetraodontidae Freshwater fish genera Taxa named by Maurice Kottelat {{tetraodontiformes-stub