''Lagocephalus'' is a

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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 ...

(pufferfish) with a circumglobal distribution.

Species

There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus: * ''

Lagocephalus guentheri The diamondback puffer (''Lagocephalus guentheri'') is a species of pufferfish in the genus ''Lagocephalus ''Lagocephalus'' is a genus of fish in the family Tetraodontidae (pufferfish) with a circumglobal distribution. Species There are cur ...

'' A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915 (Diamond-back puffer) * ''

Lagocephalus inermis ''Lagocephalus inermis'', known as the smooth blaasop, is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae native to the Indo-Pacific. It is a marine species that ranges from Algoa Bay in South Africa to southern Japan, where it occurs at a ...

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, 1850) * ''

Lagocephalus laevigatus ''Lagocephalus laevigatus'', known as the smooth puffer, is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is native to the Western Atlantic, where it ranges from New England to Argentina, as well as the Eastern Atlantic, where it range ...

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, 1766) (Smooth puffer) * ''

Lagocephalus lagocephalus The oceanic puffer, sci-name: ''Lagocephalus lagocephalus'' (meaning "rabbit head"), is a pufferfish of the family ''Tetraodontidae Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes. The fam ...

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, 1758) (Oceanic puffer) * '' Lagocephalus lunaris'' (

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& J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Lunartail puffer) * ''

Lagocephalus sceleratus ''Lagocephalus sceleratus'' (Gmelin, 1789), commonly known as the silver-cheeked toadfish, or Sennin-fugu ( ja, 仙人河豚), is an extremely poisonous marine bony fish in the family Tetraodontidae (puffer fishes). Habitat and distribution Th ...

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, 1789) (Silver-cheeked puffer) * ''

Lagocephalus spadiceus ''Lagocephalus spadiceus'', also known as the half-smooth golden pufferfish, is a species of fish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is a common fish in the Red Sea, as well as the Indian Ocean, but can be found also in the Mediterranean, where it ...

'' ( J. Richardson, 1845) (Half-smooth golden puffer) * ''

Lagocephalus suezensis ''Lagocephalus suezensis'' is a species of pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae. It is native to the western Indian Ocean and recorded in the Mediterranean Sea since 1977. It has since spread in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. It reaches 18 c ...

'' E. Clark & Gohar, 1953

References

Marine fish genera Taxa named by William John Swainson Tetraodontidae {{Tetraodontiformes-stub