White-spotted puffer
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The white-spotted puffer also eats the crown-of-thorns starfish.
THE REAL WORLD
The real White-spotted puffer
- Scientific name
- Arothron hispidus
- Japanese name
- サザナミフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Arothron
Where the name “White-spotted puffer” comes from
The scientific name hispidus is Latin for rough or bristly.
Museums VictoriaIt lives from Sagami Bay to the coasts of Kyushu and Taiwan, and across a wide area of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the White-spotted puffer lives
Young fish favor shallow lagoons with seagrass. It eats a variety of foods, including algae, molluscs and crabs. To reproduce, a male makes a nest in the sand where a female lays her eggs.
Aquarium La RochelleBasic data
- Range
- Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the White-spotted 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
- サザナミフグ
- 简体中文
- 纹腹叉鼻鲀
- 繁體中文
- 紋腹叉鼻魨
- 한국어
- 흰점꺼끌복
- Español
- Pez globo de manchas blancas
- Français
- Poisson-ballon Pintade
- Deutsch
- Weißflecken-Kugelfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Baiacu-de-pintas-brancas
- Italiano
- Pesce palla a punti bianchi
- العربية
- Hadroom
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá nóc chuột vân bụng
- Русский
- Колючий аротрон
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 — サザナミフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Stars-and-stripes Puffer, Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus 1758)Checked: 2026-11-07
- Aquarium La Rochelle — White-spotted PufferChecked: 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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