Stars And Stripes Puffer Fish
Stars and stripes puffer arothron hispidus linnaeus 1758 other names.
Stars and stripes puffer fish. The upper half of the stars stripes puffer is covered with white spots that appear from a distance like stars upon the greenish tan body coloration. With their high intelligence large body and no spine body these are one of the easiest puffers to own. The stars and stripes puffer occurs in tropical and warm temperate marine waters throughout the indo pacific.
The lower half of the body has hor. Though lacking pelvic fins and a hydrodynamic body shape puffers are extremely maneuverable and are tenacious and capable predators. Members of the genus arothron including the stars stripes puffer are sometimes called fat puffers or dogface puffers and exemplify the typical puffer design.
The upper half of the stars stripes puffer is covered with white spots that appear from a distance like stars upon the greenish tan body coloration. They are extremely maneuverable and highly intelligent making them a prized choice for a fish only or fish only with live rock set up. From wikipedia the free encyclopedia redirected from stars and stripes puffer not to be confused with torquigener albomaculosus or white spotted pufferfish.
It is named appropriately because of its unusual markings of stripes over the top of the body and the spots on its underside making a very attractive and striking pattern. The stars and stripes puffer is commonly referred to as the whitespotted pufferfish or hispid pufferfish. The white spotted puffer arothron hispidus is a medium to large sized puffer fish it can reach 50 cm length.
The stars and stripes puffer fish is a large non reef safe fish. In australia it is recorded from southern western australia around the north of the country and south to central new south wales. Broad barred puffer broad barred puffer broad barred toadfish ringed puffer stars and stripes puffer stars and stripes toadfish stars and stripes toado whitespotted puffer a stars and stripes puffer arothron hispidus at statis rock seal rocks new south wales.
The stars stripes puffer is an ornate puffer that requires very little imagination to see how it received its common name.