Stripebelly Puffer
Arothron hispidus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 4,575
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The white-spotted puffer fish (Arothron hispidus) is a medium to large-sized puffer fish, it can reach 50 cm length. It is light grey in color, or greyish or yellowish, and clearly covered with more or less regular white points, that become concentric contrasting white and dark grey lines that radiate around the eyes and pectoral fins. The ventral part is white.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “White-spotted puffer”.