''Chelonodon dapsilis'', known as the plentiful toby, is a

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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 is native to the Western Pacific, where it is endemic to

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. It is a tropical fish found in both marine and brackish environments, being known from coastal estuaries,

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, and sandy areas in marine waters. The species is reported to be

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. ITIS lists this species as a member of the genus '' Leiodon'', although

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and

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both include it within ''

Chelonodon ''Chelonodon'' is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indo-Pacific. They are mainly found in coastal regions and estuaries, but sometimes in rivers. Species and taxonomy There are five recognized species in this genus: * '' Chelonodon bengale ...

''. It was first described by

Gilbert Whitley Gilbert Percy Whitley (9 June 1903 – 18 July 1975) was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years. He was born at Swaythling, Southampton, England, an ...

in 1943, from a specimen collected from the

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, in Queensland.

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Tetraodontidae Fish of Australia Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley Fish described in 1943 {{tetraodontiformes-stub