#2280 · 🐟 fish

White-spotted Puffer

🇳🇱 Witgevlekte Kogelvis ·Arothron hispidus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Luis P. B. · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © François Libert · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Rafi Amar · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jan (Arny) Messersmith · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © John Turnbull · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Marine Explorer (Dr John Turnbull) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © Pauline Fey · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Klaus Stiefel · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The white-spotted puffer ( Arothron hispidus ) is a medium to large-sized puffer fish, it can reach 50 cm length. It is light grey in color, or greyish or yellowish, and clearly covered with more or less regular white points, that become concentric contrasting white and dark grey lines that radiate around the eyes and pectoral fins. The ventral part is white. The "shoulder" (around the pectoral fins) is dark. It also has concentric contrasting white and dark grey...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,825iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
6,825 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).