''Chelonodontops bengalensis'', also known as Bengal reticulated puffer, is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of pufferfish in the family

Tetraodontidae Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes. The family includes many familiar species variously called pufferfish, puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, blowies, bubblefish, globefish, swellfis ...

. It was first discovered at Alor Kol in

Dublar Char Dublar Char is an island in Bangladesh with an area of 66.5 km2, located in the Bagerhat District of the Khulna Division. It's a tourist destination inside Sundarban. Only Teletalk Internet & Mobile Network is available here. Fisherman live ...

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

. It is found in the northern

Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line between ...

in Bangladesh and India. Though ''C. bengalensis'' is closely related to '' C. patoca'', they are distinct species. A group of researchers from Bangladesh and

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

ran their scientific research from May 2016 to December 2017 in Sundarban and discovered the new species of pufferfish. The color of the species is blackish and it has tints like trellis. It can grow to

standard length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology. Overall length * Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...

References

Tetraodontidae Fish of the Indian Ocean Fish of Bangladesh Fish described in 2018 {{Tetraodontiformes-stub