''Chonerhinos naritus'', the bronze pufferfish or yellow pufferfish,Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds
Common names of ''Chonerhinos naritus''.
FishBase. 2011. 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 ...

pufferfish 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 ...

native to

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

, where mainly found in

estuarine An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environment ...

and coastal habitats.Abidin, M.; and A. Bintoro (2015). Kebiasaan Makan Alami Ikan Buntal Kuning (Chonerhinos naritus) di Estuari Sungai Indragiri, Riau. Buletin Teknik Litkayasa Sumber Daya dan Penangkapan 13(1): 11—14.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. This species grows to a length of TL, but otherwise it generally resembles the smaller and more strictly freshwater ''

Auriglobus '' Auriglobus'' is a genus of freshwater tetraodontidae, pufferfishes native to Southeast Asia. They generally resemble ''Chonerhinos'', but are considerably smaller, only reaching up to in length, and are more strongly associated with freshwate ...

'' pufferfish. This predatory species feeds on other fish,

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...

s (both crabs and shrimp) and snails.

Taxonomy

''C. naritus'' is the only species in the

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 ...

''Chonerhinos'', but the

synonym A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are all ...

''Xenopterus'' was formerly used instead. At that point the genus name ''Chonerhinos'' was used for the species ''

modestus Modestus was a Roman cognomen. It may refer to: * Julius Modestus (1st century BC), Roman freedman and grammarian * Marcus Mettius Modestus (procurator) (1st century AD), Roman governor of Egypt * Aufidius Modestus (1st century AD), Roman philo ...

'' and its relatives, but this was incorrect and they were moved to ''

'' in 1999. 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.

Notes

References

* Tetraodontidae Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker Fish described in 1854 Monotypic ray-finned fish genera {{Tetraodontiformes-stub