Puffer
Sphoeroides annulatus
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
- Sphoeroides
Where to Find
Found in 13 diving areas across 10 countries and 4 regions.
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 26 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 1 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 32 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 27 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 90 records
- Malpelo Island, Colombia - 43 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 201 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 6 records
- Mancora & North Coast, Peru - 4 records