Blackspot Pufferfish
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Black-spotted pufferfish ( Arothron nigropunctatus ) |
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The black- spot puffer fish or lemon puffer fish ( Arothron nigropunctatus ) is one of the most common puffer fish in the coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific . Its exact distribution area extends from the coast of East and South Africa to Australia , the Line Islands , Japan and New Caledonia . It lives in shallow, coral-rich zones, no deeper than 25 meters.
The fish are 33 centimeters long and have a very variable color, light and dark gray, brownish or yellow with a blue back or completely blue. They always have some black spots distributed irregularly over the body.
The black-spotted pufferfish feed on coral polyps , which it eats by completely biting off the tips of branch-shaped corals such as acropores . He also eats mollusks and crabs.
It is popular as a resident of public show and zoo aquariums, but cannot be socialized with invertebrates .
literature
- Hans A. Baensch / Robert A. Patzner: Mergus Sea Water Atlas Volume 6 Non-Perciformes (Non-Perciformes) , Mergus-Verlag, Melle, ISBN 3-88244-116-X
Web links
- Blackspot Pufferfish on Fishbase.org (English)