WoRMS taxon details
Canthigaster punctatissima (Günther, 1870)
275264 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275264)
accepted
Species
Canthigaster brederi Whitley, 1959 · unaccepted
Canthigaster punctatissima punctatissima (Günther, 1870) · unaccepted (senior synonym)
Canthigaster punctatissimus (Günther, 1870) · unaccepted
Canthigaster punctatissimus reticulatus Breder, 1936 · unaccepted
Sphoeroides brunneus Fowler, 1944 · unaccepted
Tetrodon oxyrrhynchus Lockington, 1881 · unaccepted
Tetrodon punctatissimus Günther, 1870 · unaccepted
- Subspecies Canthigaster punctatissima punctatissima (Günther, 1870) accepted as Canthigaster punctatissima (Günther, 1870) (senior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Tetrodon punctatissimus Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Canthigaster punctatissima (Günther, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=275264 on 2026-01-23
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Canthigaster brederi Whitley, 1959) Whitley, G. P. (1959). Ichthyological snippets. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> 12 (4): 310-323. [details]
original description (of Sphoeroides brunneus Fowler, 1944) Fowler, H. W. (1944). Results of the fifth George Vanderbilt expedition (1941) (Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Galápagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific islands). The Fishes. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 6: 57-529, Pls. 1-20. [details]
original description (of Tetrodon punctatissimus Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
original description (of Sphoeroides brunneus Fowler, 1944) Fowler, H. W. (1944). Results of the fifth George Vanderbilt expedition (1941) (Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Galápagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific islands). The Fishes. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 6: 57-529, Pls. 1-20. [details]
original description (of Tetrodon punctatissimus Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (81 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Canthigaster punctatissimus reticulatus Breder, 1936)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Tetrodon punctatissimus Günther, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Canthigaster punctatissimus (Günther, 1870))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Canthigaster punctatissima)
To FishBase (from synonym Canthigaster punctatissimus reticulatus Breder, 1936)
To Fishbase (from synonym Canthigaster punctatissimus (Günther, 1870))
To FishBase (from synonym Canthigaster brederi Whitley, 1959)
To FishBase (from synonym Sphoeroides brunneus Fowler, 1944)
To FishBase (from synonym Tetrodon oxyrrhynchus Lockington, 1881)
To FishBase (from synonym Tetrodon punctatissimus Günther, 1870)
To FishBase
To GenBank (77 nucleotides; 77 proteins)
To GenBank (77 nucleotides; 77 proteins) (from synonym Tetrodon punctatissimus Günther, 1870)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Canthigaster punctatissimus reticulatus Breder, 1936)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Tetrodon punctatissimus Günther, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Canthigaster punctatissimus (Günther, 1870))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Canthigaster punctatissima)
To FishBase (from synonym Canthigaster punctatissimus reticulatus Breder, 1936)
To Fishbase (from synonym Canthigaster punctatissimus (Günther, 1870))
To FishBase (from synonym Canthigaster brederi Whitley, 1959)
To FishBase (from synonym Sphoeroides brunneus Fowler, 1944)
To FishBase (from synonym Tetrodon oxyrrhynchus Lockington, 1881)
To FishBase (from synonym Tetrodon punctatissimus Günther, 1870)
To FishBase
To GenBank (77 nucleotides; 77 proteins)
To GenBank (77 nucleotides; 77 proteins) (from synonym Tetrodon punctatissimus Günther, 1870)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
