Canthigaster rostrata
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C. rostrata
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| Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch, 1786)
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Canthigaster rostrata, commonly known as the Caribbean sharp-nose puffer, is a pufferfish from the Western Central Atlantic. It can be encountered from the coast of South Carolina to Venezuela, including the Bermuda, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.[1]
It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 12cm in length.[2]
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External links
- http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127411
- http://eol.org/pages/205818/details
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2008). "Canthigaster rostrata" in FishBase. December 2008 version.
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