Arothron hispidus

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Tetraodontiformes; Tetraodontidae; Arothron; Arothron hispidus; Yukon; Baja; Pacific; Milton; Scripps; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5609952; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609952

Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758). Stripebelly Puffer or White-spotted Pufferfish. To 52 cm (20.5 in) TL (Kulbicki et al. 2005). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Yonaguni-jima Island, Japan (Koeda et al. 2016); Todos Santos area (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and tip of Baja California to Colombia (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); not in Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 122 m (400 ft) (min.: Kwun et al. 2017; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 225, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008