Accepted scientific name:

Synonym:

Common names:

parrot pufferfish

点条方头鲀 Mandarin Chinese

點條方頭魨 Mandarin Chinese

Baiacu Portuguese

Baiacu camisa de meia Portuguese

Baiacu-açu Portuguese

Baiacu-de-água-doce Portuguese

Baiacu-lavrado Portuguese

Baiacu-listado Portuguese

Baiacu-xaréu Portuguese

Baloncito Spanish

Banded puffer English

Compère French

Compère à bandes French

Corrotucho Spanish

Corrotucho listado Spanish

Gro-vant Creole, French

Guamaiacu Portuguese

Kaijapallokala Finnish

Kuro-obifugu Japanese

Mamaiacu Portuguese

Papageienkugelfisch German

Papegøjekuglefisk Danish

Classification:

Distribution:

Western Atlantic: Gulf of Paria to the Amazon River in Brazil.; Venezuela; Trinidad and Tobago; Suriname; South Brazil Shelf; North Brazil Shelf; Neotropical; Guyana; East Brazil Shelf; French Guiana; Caribbean Sea; Brazil; Atlantic, Western Central; Atlantic, Southwest; Atlantic Ocean; America, South - Inland waters; Amazon

Additional data:

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Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Group expert : Matsuura K., Data last modified by FishBase 10-Feb-1998

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...

CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:403db3a2-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009