Chelonodon
Genus of fishes
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Chelonodon (from Ancient Greek χελώνη (khelṓnē), meaning "turtle", and ὀδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth") is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indo-Pacific. They are mainly found in coastal regions and estuaries, but sometimes in rivers.
| Chelonodon | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Tetraodontidae |
| Genus: | Chelonodon J. P. Müller, 1841 |
| Type species | |
| Tetrodon kappa Hamilton, 1822 | |
| Species | |
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see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chelonodontops | |
Species and taxonomy
There are six recognized species in this genus:[1][2]
- Chelonodon alvheimi (Psomadakis, Matsuura & Thein, 2018)
- Chelonodon kappa (Hamilton, 1822)
- Chelonodon laticeps (J. L. B. Smith, 1948) (Blue-spotted blaasop)
- Chelonodon leopardus (Day, 1878) (Banded leopard blowfish)
- Chelonodon patoca (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Milk-spotted puffer)
- Chelonodon pleurospilus (Regan, 1919) (Blaasop beauty)
- Synonyms
- Chelonodon bengalensis (Habib et al., 2018) (Bengal reticulated puffer)[3] is a synonym of Chelonodon patoca (Hamilton, 1822)[4]
The type species of Chelonodon was Leiodon cutcutia, making it a synonym of Leiodon. As a consequence, Catalog of Fishes and other authorities instead placed the above species in Chelonodontops.[3] FishBase, however, still uses Chelonodon,[2] and therefore the type was changed to C. kappa in 2024.[4]
