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Puffer ID?
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:57 am
by UncleFugu
I found this picture on a blog,
http://tidechaser.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html and I don't know what it is. According to the blog, it was caught at Pulau Ubin, Chek Jawa, Singapore in marine water.
I have no idea what it is. Checked pufferpedia, fishbase and a puffer species list I own. Could this be the elusive
Javichthys kailolae?
Re: Puffer ID?
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:02 pm
by Pufferpunk
Wow, you find the weirdest puffers!
Re: Puffer ID?
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:23 pm
by UncleFugu
Pufferpunk wrote:Wow, you find the weirdest puffers!
tss...thanks!!!
Re: Puffer ID?
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:06 am
by Corvus
Probably a small, terribly frightend Arothron immaculatus:
See here:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11400&p=116054&hili ... us#p116054
and
http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Photos/Pic ... s&TotRec=6
Not a deep water species like the one you suggested.
Re: Puffer ID?
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:25 pm
by UncleFugu
Update: I found another picture of what seems to be the same species on the same website:
Ithink you are right in saying it is Arothron immaculatus:
http://www.wildsingapore.com.sg/wildfil ... r-dan.html
"Two cute little pufferfishes were also seen. They were probably the Yelloweye puffer (Arothron immaculatus), which we've not seen before!"