''Dichotomyctere sabahensis'' 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 ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the southeast Asian island of

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

. This species grows to a

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 ...

of . It is also called the giant spotted puffer or the Saba puffer.''The Puffers of Fresh and Brackish Waters'', 2001 Dr. Klaus Ebert, Aqualog Verlag GmbH. The juvenile looks much like the

spotted green pufferfish A green spotted puffer may be one of several different species of Asian fresh or brackish water pufferfish in the genus ''Dichotomyctere'' (formerly ''Tetraodon''), including: *''Dichotomyctere fluviatilis'', sometimes called the green, Ceylon, or ...

(''D. nigroviridis''), and both can live 15 years in an aquarium. Though the giant green spotted puffer seems to prefer a much lower

salinity Salinity () is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity). It is usually measured in g/L or g/kg (grams of salt per liter/kilogram of water; the latter is dimensionless and equal ...

as an adult. It is safe to keep ''D. sabahensis'' at a salinity of 1.004 or half-

brackish Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuari ...

References

Tetraodontidae Fish described in 1975 {{tetraodontiformes-stub