A green spotted puffer may be one of several different species of Asian fresh or brackish water pufferfish in the genus ''

Dichotomyctere ''Dichotomyctere'' is a genus of relatively small pufferfish found in both fresh and brackish waters in south and southeast Asia. Its species were generally included in the genus '' Tetraodon'' until 2013. Kottelat, M. (2013). The Fishes of the ...

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Dichotomyctere fluviatilis The green pufferfish or Ceylon pufferfish (''Dichotomyctere fluviatilis'', syn. ''Tetraodon fluviatilis'') is a species of pufferfish found in South and Southeast Asia. Its habitat include rivers, estuaries, lakes and flood plains. It lives ...

'', sometimes called the green, Ceylon, or topaz pufferfishMonks N. (editor): Brackish Water Fishes, TFH 2006, *''

Dichotomyctere nigroviridis ''Dichotomyctere nigroviridis'' ( syn. ''Tetraodon nigroviridis'') is one of the pufferfish known as the green spotted puffer. It is found across South and Southeast Asia in coastal freshwater,but survives the longest in brackish to saltwater ...

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Dichotomyctere sabahensis ''Dichotomyctere sabahensis'' is a species of pufferfish endemic to the southeast Asian island of Borneo. This species grows to a standard length of . It is also called the giant spotted puffer or the Saba puffer.''The Puffers of Fresh and Br ...

'', sometimes called the Sabahensis pufferEbert Klaus: The Puffers of Fresh and Brackish Water, Aqualog 2005, Distinguishing these species is difficult, in part because each species is highly variable in colouration. Scientists working on these pufferfish as

genomic Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

lab animals consider it impossible to identify these species 100% reliably using colouration alone, and tropical fish retailers commonly confuse them.

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