'' Amblyrhynchotes'' is a

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of pufferfishes native to the

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and

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Species

There are at least two recognized species in this genus: * ''

Amblyrhynchotes honckenii ''Amblyrhynchotes honckenii'', known as the evileye pufferfish, evileye puffer or evileye blaasop, is a species of fish on the genus ''Amblyrhynchotes''. It is native to the Indo-West Pacific, from South Africa to China, and was first described ...

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, 1785) (evileye blaasop) * '' Amblyrhynchotes rufopunctatus'' S. C. Li, 1962

References

Tetraodontidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Franz Hermann Troschel {{tetraodontiformes-stub