Arothron meleagris

• 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 meleagris; Baja; Milton; Pacific; Scripps; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5609954; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609954

Arothron meleagris (Anonymous, 1798). Guineafowl Puffer or Guineafowl Pufferfish. To 45 cm TL (17.7 in) TL (Kuiter and Tonozuka 2001). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Ogasawara Islands, Japan (Yamada in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos area (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); tip of Baja California into central and southern Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002) to Peru (Pequeño 1989), including Islas Galápagos, and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: 1–144 (3–472 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019). The original description is usually ascribed to Lacepède; Fricke et al. (2020) explain why Anonymous is correct. 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