Blackspotted puffer
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Some blackspotted puffers are yellow over part or all of their bodies.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blackspotted puffer
- Scientific name
- Arothron nigropunctatus
- Japanese name
- コクテンフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Arothron
Where the name “Blackspotted puffer” comes from
The scientific name nigropunctatus comes from Latin words meaning black and spotted.
Museums VictoriaIt lives from islands such as Hachijojima, the Ogasawara Islands and the Ryukyu Islands across a wide area of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Blackspotted puffer lives
It lives on coral reefs. It feeds mainly on live corals, and also eats sponges and algae.
Australian MuseumMuseums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Blackspotted 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
- コクテンフグ
- 简体中文
- 黑斑叉鼻鲀
- 繁體中文
- 黑斑叉鼻魨
- 한국어
- 흑점꺼끌복
- Español
- Pez globo moteado
- Français
- Ballon Maculé
- Deutsch
- Schwarzflecken-Kugelfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Baiacu-focinho-de-cão
- Italiano
- Pesce palla a macchie nere
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ikan buntal babi
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá nóc đốm đen
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 — コクテンフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Blackspotted Puffer, Arothron nigropunctatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801)Checked: 2026-11-07
- Australian Museum — Blackspotted Pufferfish, Arothron nigropunctatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)Checked: 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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