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  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Puffers and Filefishes
  6. Pufferfishes
  7. Common Puffers

genus

Common Puffers

Sphoeroides

Includes
5 native 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Sphoeroides is a genus of pufferfishes.

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Children

  • Checkered Puffer presumed native
  • Bullseye Puffer present
  • Northern Puffer native
  • Bandtail Puffer native
  • Southern Puffer presumed native
  • Longnose Puffer present
  • Least Puffer presumed native
  • Blunthead Puffer
  • Amazon Puffer
  • Marbled Puffer

Range

United States

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

Most observed native common puffers All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Northern Puffer Sphoeroides maculatus 1,280 observations
  • Bandtail Puffer Sphoeroides spengleri 1,147 observations

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