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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Tetraodontidae |
| Genus: | Chelonodon J. P. Müller, 1841 |
| Type species | |
| Tetrodon kappa Hamilton, 1822
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| Synonyms | |
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Chelonodontops | |
Chelonodon (from Ancient Greek χελώνη (khelṓnē), meaning "turtle", and ὀδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth") is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indo-Pacific. They are mainly found in coastal regions and estuaries, but sometimes in rivers.
Species and taxonomy
There are six recognized species in this genus:12
- Chelonodon alvheimi (Psomadakis, Matsuura & Thein, 2018)
- Chelonodon kappa (Hamilton, 1822)
- Chelonodon laticeps (J. L. B. Smith, 1948) (Blue-spotted blaasop)
- Chelonodon leopardus (Day, 1878) (Banded leopard blowfish)
- Chelonodon patoca (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Milk-spotted puffer)
- Chelonodon pleurospilus (Regan, 1919) (Blaasop beauty)
- Synonyms
- Chelonodon bengalensis (Habib et al., 2018) (Bengal reticulated puffer)3 is a synonym of Chelonodon patoca (Hamilton, 1822)4
The type species of Chelonodon was Leiodon cutcutia, making it a synonym of Leiodon. As a consequence, Catalog of Fishes and other authorities instead placed the above species in Chelonodontops.3 FishBase, however, still uses Chelonodon,2 and therefore the type was changed to C. kappa in 2024.4
References
References
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Chelonodon". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Chelonodon". FishBase. February 2016 version.
- Habib, K.A.; A.K. Neogi; J. Oh; Y.-H. Lee; C.-G. Kim (2018). "Chelonodontops bengalensis (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae): A New Species of Puffer Fish from the Northern Bay of Bengal Based on Morphology and DNA Barcode". Ocean Science Journal. 54 (1): 79–86. doi:10.1007/s12601-018-0054-7. S2CID 91952672.
- Ralf Britz; Heok Hui Tan; Lukas Rüber (10 October 2024). "Chelonodontops bengalensis Habib et al. 2018, a junior synonym of Tetrodon patoca Hamilton 1822, with a type species designation for Chelonodon Müller 1841". Zootaxa. 5519 (4): 561–570. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5519.4.5. PMID 39645961.