#2309 · 🐟 fish
Guineafowl Puffer
🇳🇱 Parelhoen kogelvis ·Arothron meleagris
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what is it?
Arothron meleagris , commonly known as the guineafowl puffer or golden puffer , is a pufferfish from the Indo-Pacific, and Eastern Pacific. It is occasionally harvested for the aquarium trade. It reaches 50 cm in length.
base stats
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.
- 4,982 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Guineafowl Puffer
- Nederlands
- Parelhoen kogelvis
- scientific name
- Arothron meleagris
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Tetraodontiformes
- family
- Tetraodontidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,982
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Tetraodontidae
#2280 📷 9White-spotted Puffer
🇳🇱 Witgevlekte Kogelvis
Arothron hispidus
LC 🌍 6.8k seen
#2312 📷 10Blackspotted Puffer
Arothron nigropunctatus
LC 🌍 4.9k seen
#2366 📷 10Smooth Toadfish
Tetractenos glaber
LC 🌍 4k seen
#2369 📷 10Blacksaddle Toby
🇳🇱 Valentinikogelvis
Canthigaster valentini
LC 🌍 3.9k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 83318, Wikidata Q1433296, GBIF 2407418, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.