Spottyback Puffer
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The spottyback puffer has a body covered in small prickles.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spottyback Puffer
- Scientific name
- Takifugu stictonotus
- Japanese name
- ゴマフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Takifugu
It lives along the coasts of Japan from Hokkaido to Kyushu, in the East China Sea, and off the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula.
How the Spottyback Puffer lives
It lives on the seabed in temperate seas.
FishBaseBasic data
- Range
- Coasts from Hokkaido to western Kyushu and Tosa Bay, Seto Inland Sea, East China Sea, and elsewhere
Where the Spottyback Puffer has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ゴマフグ
- 简体中文
- 密点多纪鲀
- 繁體中文
- 密點多紀魨
- 한국어
- 까칠복
- Español
- Fugu bonito manchado
- Português (Brasil)
- Fugu-de-dorso-pintado
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ゴマフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- FishBase — Takifugu stictonotusChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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