Pufferfish
Arothron hispidus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Arothron
Where to Find
Found in 56 diving areas across 33 countries and 8 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 24 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 24 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 29 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 7 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 2 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 199 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 199 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 9 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 3 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 2 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 8 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 15 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 4 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 4 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 22 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 5 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 18 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 4 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 10 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 29 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 4 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 5 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 9 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 24 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 1 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 12 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 9 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 3 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 27 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 14 records
- Eilat, Israel - 2 records
- Port Sudan & Sanganeb, Sudan - 8 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 17 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 4 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 4 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 1 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 16 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 16 records
- Siargao, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 6 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 17 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 1 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 11 records