Spotted Puffer
Arothron meleagris
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 31 diving areas across 22 countries and 8 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 14 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 231 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 231 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 6 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 4 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 3 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 33 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 3 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 3 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 11 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 38 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 46 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 7 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 201 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 10 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 2 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records