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Thanks Folks,

some more pics by Banjo to gloat over

http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/ug.php/v/PufferPedia/Marine/Chelonodon+patoca/ so this is the same as a milkspotted? Looks to be the same but a pic of the fish free swimming would have helped better by way of comparisions. Btw, I thought the Milk Spotted Puffer was trade/hobby name for Takifugu...

pufferpuggirl wrote:You gotta admire the guy, he is, afterall, thinking about the puffer's well being (in regards to not wanting it removed from the tank).

Yes, there's that too

PS: Also try to get more pictures of the second one and its nostrils. I'm really sorry Corvus but a friend who is currently housing the Yellow Spots just refuses to have the fish taken out of a much planted and decorated tank to get closeups of the narines/nostrils. He feels the fish will get too s...

Just got a few of these 3 cm Takifugu oblongus aka the Milk Spotted / White Spotted Puffer. These were collected from the Matla river at Port Canning, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal State, India.

Photo credits : Banjohead

Corvus wrote:PS: Also try to get more pictures of the second one and its nostrils.

Got it scheduled with Banjo for the weekend, will post defo on Monday next.

Yes, when these fishes (the first ones) were caught we also thought of A. firmamentum, but it was easily outruled (we discussed this a few years ago, if you can get it translated to English also get: HIMMEL, M. & LICHTENBERGER, M.: Erstimport von Chelonodon patoca? – Nr. 18, Juli/August 2008, 4...

Also get "A New Record of the Marine Puffer Fish Genus, Chelonodon (Tetraodoniformes, Tetraodonitae) from Freshwater Habitat of Western Ghats, India." by Muthukumarasamy Arunachalam et al. online or from the library. YES, I got this paper a few days back. Yet to go through it well. And ha...

Hi from India, and a few names of our region which is the Eastern part comprising the states of West Bengal, Orissa and others. In India there are 27 States and almost every place has it's distinct language and wherever the Puffers are found names are different but I'll start with ones I know : West...

Check the genus and species descriptions in the original publications (available in almost any university library, start with Hamilton Buchanan, 1822) and continue to younger works to get all the details. Most puffer genera recognized today are based on the general type of nostrils/narines. Compare...

Head shape is not a diagnostic character (just have alook how many different head shapes are seen in the Monotrete genus), the narines/norstrils however are a diagnostic trait on the genus level. With all due respect Corvus, those are just abstract mumblings. Can you be more specific how diagnostic...

A. immaculatus is the right ID. Try a picture where the tail is open. Yes it matches. A few more pics of the same specimen but just cannot get a shot with the tail open. As Banjohead had shot this in a phototank maybe the puffer's way to be startled was to keep it's tail folded akin to a scared dog...