Here's a few Marine Puffers I've never seen before

Post by **puffertt77** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:07 am

IL3-084 juvenile Star puffer, Arothron stellatus.jpg

IL3-174 Star puffer, Arothron stellatus.jpg

IL1-32 Porcupine fish or Birdbeak burrfish, Cyclichthys orbicularis.jpg

FMI-182 Black-blotched porcupinefish, Diodon liturosus.jpg

And here's a couple of pix of some evil looking fish

IL2-058 Stargazer, Uranoscopus sulphureus 2.jpg

IL2-026 Stargazer, Uranoscopus sulphureus 1.jpg

IL3-090 Stargazer with lure, Uranoscopus sulphureus.jpg

fishlady1958 · Post by **fishlady1958** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:18 am

that is one scary fishie ..........

Agnate · Post by **Agnate** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:50 am

The first one doesn't seem like a stellatus, and looks a lot more like a species of boxfish in my opinion. Still very cute, though! ^_^

Post by **puffertt77** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:54 am

Agnate wrote:The first one doesn't seem like a stellatus, and looks a lot more like a species of boxfish in my opinion. Still very cute, though! ^_^

You maybe right, I just copied and pasted the info from the webpage

Post by **puffertt77** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:55 am

I forgot to add this one

FMI-189 Black-spotted puffer, Arothron nigropunctatus.jpg

LinearChaos · Post by **LinearChaos** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:12 pm

Agnate wrote:The first one doesn't seem like a stellatus, and looks a lot more like a species of boxfish in my opinion. Still very cute, though! ^_^

Looks like an A. stellatus to me...just stressed and wedged between two rocks. lol Cool pictures!

Martin Hi. · Post by **Martin Hi.** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:19 pm

hi,
yes the first one ist a a. stellatus. they look very different as juveniles. their colour usually changes from yellow, over red to the grey-white that the adults have.
because of that you will often find them under different names in the elder literature: former scientists also thaugth that this had to be different species. but they are all a. stellatus!
take a look at this little guy (about 10 cm) that i have found in egypt:
http://www.kugelfischforum.de/index.php ... reView]=13
martin

Post by **puffertt77** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:54 pm

Martin Hi. wrote:hi,
yes the first one ist a a. stellatus. they look very different as juveniles. their colour usually changes from yellow, over red to the grey-white that the adults have.
because of that you will often find them under different names in the elder literature: former scientists also thaugth that this had to be different species. but they are all a. stellatus!
take a look at this little guy (about 10 cm) that i have found in egypt:
http://www.kugelfischforum.de/index.php ... reView]=13
martin

That's such a nice fish

So are they puffers?

And is this 1st pic just a different spieces?

Martin Hi. · Post by **Martin Hi.** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:00 pm

hi,
yes, the genus of arothron belongs to the family of puffers.
picture one and two and the picture posted by me are all the same species: picture one and my picture show very small juveniles, picture two showes an adult fish.
martin

Post by **puffertt77** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:47 pm

I just found a red one

Arothron stellatus Juv RA.JPG

j2.jpg

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:01 am

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