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in the

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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 ...

) found in freshwater in Africa. It is the

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of the family and historically included numerous other species; several Asian species were only moved to the genera ''

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 In ...

'', '' Leiodon'' and '' Pao'' in 2013. Kottelat, M. (2013). The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries. ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No. 27: 1–663.''Eschmeyer, W. N., R. Fricke, and R. van der Laan (18 February 2017).
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Species

There are 6 recognized species in this genus: * ''

Tetraodon duboisi ''Tetraodon duboisi'' is a species of pufferfish endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo where it is known only from Stanley Pool. Some sources speculate that they are critically endangered in the wild, but that theory is difficult to ver ...

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, 1959 * ''

Tetraodon lineatus ''Tetraodon'' is a genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae) found in freshwater in Africa. It is the type genus of the family and historically included numerous other species; several Asian species were only moved to the genera ''Dichotomy ...

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(Fahaka pufferfish, Nile pufferfish, lineatus puffer or globe fish) * '' Tetraodon mbu''

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, 1899 (mbu pufferfish or giant pufferfish) * ''

Tetraodon miurus ''Tetraodon'' is a genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae) found in freshwater in Africa. It is the type genus of the family and historically included numerous other species; several Asian species were only moved to the genera ''Dichotom ...

, 1902 (Congo pufferfish or potato pufferfish) * ''

Tetraodon pustulatus The redline pufferfish (''Tetraodon pustulatus'') is a species of pufferfish native to the Cross River in Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Fed ...

'' A. D. Murray, 1857 (Cross River pufferfish) * ''

Tetraodon schoutedeni ''Tetraodon schoutedeni'' is a species of pufferfish native to Africa's Congo Basin. This species grows to a length of . This species is named in honour of the Belgian zoologist Henri Schouteden. In captivity During the 1960s the Tetraodon ...

'' Pellegrin, 1926

References

Extant Miocene first appearances Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{tetraodontiformes-stub