Species details : Sphoeroides marmoratus (Lowe, 1838)

Accepted scientific name:
Sphoeroides marmoratus (Lowe, 1838) (accepted name) 1 literature reference for Sphoeroides marmoratus  (Lowe, 1838)
Synonyms:
Sphaeroides spengleri (non Bloch, 1785) (misapplied name) 1 literature reference for Sphaeroides spengleri (non Bloch, 1785)
Sphoeroides spengleri (non Bloch, 1785) (misapplied name) 1 literature reference for Sphoeroides spengleri (non Bloch, 1785)
Tetrodon marmoratus Lowe, 1838 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Tetrodon marmoratus Lowe, 1838
Tetrodon spengleri (non Bloch, 1785) (misapplied name) 1 literature reference for Tetrodon spengleri (non Bloch, 1785)
Common names:
Common name Transliteration Language Country
Pambo - Creole, Portuguese Cape Verde Islands Click here to show the literature
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Peixe-bola - Creole, Portuguese Cape Verde Islands Click here to show the literature
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Guinea-kuglefisk - Danish Denmark Click here to show the literature
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Guinean puffer - English United Kingdom Click here to show the literature
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Guinean pufferfish - English - Click here to show the literature
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Compère de Guinée - French France Click here to show the literature
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斑紋圓魨 Ban wun yuan tun Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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斑纹圆鲀 Ban wen yuan tun Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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Peixe-balão - Portuguese - Click here to show the literature
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Peixe-sapo-de-pintas - Portuguese Cape Verde Islands Click here to show the literature
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Sapinho - Portuguese - Click here to show the literature
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Sapo - Portuguese - Click here to show the literature
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Sopapo - Portuguese - Click here to show the literature
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Tamboril de Guinea - Spanish Spain Click here to show the literature
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Classification:
Kingdom Animalia CoL
Phylum Chordata CoL
Class Actinopterygii FishBase
Order Tetraodontiformes FishBase
Family Tetraodontidae FishBase
Genus Sphoeroides FishBase
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Portugal to Angola.
Lifezones: Marine
Additional data: Year from Eschmeyer, pers. comm.
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Group expert : Matsuura, K., 19-May-2014
Source database: FishBase, Jan 2015   99%
Bibliographic citation: Froese R. & Pauly D. (eds) (2025). FishBase (version Jan 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2015 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
Online resource: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=13810
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:fd7fadc0-ac8e-11e3-805d-020044200006:col20150401