Biology:Sphoeroides

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Sphoeroides
Sphoeroides dorsalis.jpg
Sphoeroides dorsalis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Tetraodontidae
Subfamily: Tetraodontinae
Genus: Sphoeroides
Anonymous (Lacépède), 1798[1]
Species

See text.

Sphoeroides is a genus of pufferfishes.

Species

There are currently 23 recognized species in this genus:[2]

References

  1. An anonymous review of volume I of Lacépède's Histoire naturelle des poissons (in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, 1798, columns 673–680) was apparently the first publication to Latinize several of Lacépède's genera; in this case Lacépède's name was Sphéroïdes.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Sphoeroides in FishBase. October 2012 version.
  3. Araujo, Gabriel S.; Kurtz, Yan R.; Sazima, Ivan; Carvalho, Pedro Hollanda; Floeter, Sergio R.; Vilasboa, Anderson; Rotundo, Matheus M.; Ferreira, Carlos E L. et al. (2023). "Evolutionary history, biogeography, and a new species of Sphoeroides (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae): how the major biogeographic barriers of the Atlantic Ocean shaped the evolution of a pufferfish genus". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad055. https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad055/7243360. Retrieved 2023-09-10. 

Wikidata ☰ Q944587 entry