Yellowspotted puffer
(Torquigener flavimaculosus)
Image source: Luca Sattin | inaturalist.org
General data
Scientific names:
Yellowspotted puffer
Habitat:
Saltwater
Climates:
Tropical, Subtropical
Introduced to coast of:
Europe
Torquigener flavimaculosus is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, capable of very rapid body inflation when threatened.
Native to the Western Indian Ocean, it is also found in the Indo-Pacific from the Persian Gulf to the Seychelles.
Recorded first in the Mediterranean Sea in 1987, following a likely migration through the Suez Canal, it is now expanding westward.
