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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Puffers and Filefishes
  6. Pufferfishes, Porcupinefishes, and Molas

suborder

Pufferfishes, Porcupinefishes, and Molas

Tetraodontoidei

Includes
17 native 10 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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  • Pufferfishes 10 native
  • Porcupinefishes 5 native
  • Molas 2 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native pufferfishes, porcupinefishes, and molas All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • White-spotted Puffer Arothron hispidus 6,627 observations
  • Common Mola Mola mola 4,389 observations
  • Striped Burrfish Chilomycterus schoepfii 4,196 observations
  • Hawaiian Spotted Toby Canthigaster jactator 2,008 observations
  • Northern Puffer Sphoeroides maculatus 1,280 observations
  • Bandtail Puffer Sphoeroides spengleri 1,147 observations
  • Smooth Puffer Lagocephalus laevigatus 338 observations
  • Hawaiian Crown Toby Canthigaster coronata 240 observations
  • Web Burrfish Chilomycterus antillarum 223 observations

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