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Least Puffer

Sphoeroides parvus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 513, February 491, March 557, April 1,058, May 648, June 315, July 283, August 292, September 347, October 370, November 481, December 466.
United States13,273
Texas5,820
Alabama4,576
Mississippi1,433
Louisiana405
Delaware1
New Jersey1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • AquaticLives primarily in waterFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassRay-finned Fishes · Actinopterygii
OrderPuffers and Filefishes · Tetraodontiformes
FamilyPufferfishes · Tetraodontidae
GenusSphoeroides

Sources

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