Marine life identification guide > Pufferfish, porcupinefish & boxfish > Blackspotted puffer

Arothron nigropunctatus

Blackspotted puffer

Dog-faced puffer

Distribution: from Eastern Africa to Southern Japan, Micronesia, Samoa and Australia.

Its coloration is variable and can be light-brown, grey, blue-grey or bright yellow, sometimes grey with a yellow belly.

In yellow coloration, may be confused with Arothron meleagris.

Absent from the Red Sea, where it is replaced by closely related Arothron diadematus.

Arothron nigropunctatus snorkeling pictures

at Norman Reef (Queensland)

at Siladen Island (Indonesia)

at Lagon de l’Hermitage (Réunion Island)
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at Lagon de l’Hermitage (Réunion Island)
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at Lagon de l’Hermitage (Réunion Island)
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at Lagon de la Saline (Réunion Island)
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at Vilamendhoo (Ari Atoll)
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at Lagon de l’Hermitage (Réunion Island)

at Lagon de Saint-Pierre (Réunion Island)
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at Lagon de Saint-Pierre (Réunion Island)

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