Spiny blaasop
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The spiny blaasop (Tylerius spinosissimus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae, the pufferfishes. This puffer is native to the Indian Ocean, the southwestern Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean along the coast of South Africa. It has recently been recorded in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. This species is the only species in the monospecific genus Tylerius.
Taxonomy
The spiny blassop was first formally described as Spheroides spinosissimus by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan with its type locality given as the Saya de Malha Bank in the western Indian Ocean from a depth of over Template:Cvt.[2] In 1984 the New Zealand ichthyologist Graham S. Hardy proposed the monospecific genus Tylerius with this species being the type species by monotypy. The genus Tylerius belongs to the family Tetraodontidae.[4]
Etymology
The spiny blassop is the only species in the genus Tylerius, an name that honours the American ichthyologist James C. Tyler in recognition of his considerable contribution to the study of the Tetraodontiformes. The specific name, spinosissimus, means "very spiny", a reference to the head and body being covered with double rooted spines.[5]
Description
The spiny blassop is grey with a dark blotch above and to the rear of the eye, with another at the base of dorsal fin. The posterior margin of caudal fin is black and there are black spots on belly. This species grows to a maximum total length of Template:Cvt.[6]
Distribution
The spiny blaasop is found in the Atlantic off the southeast coast of South Africa, and in the Indo-Pacific from South Africa to northwestern Australia; northward to South China Sea.[6] It has recently colonised the Levantine waters of the Mediterranean Sea off Rhodes and Turkey, most likely as a Lessepsian migrant[7] from the Red Sea or in ballast water. [8]
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Christopher Scharpf (11 April 2025). "Order TETRAODONTIFORMES: Families TRIODONTIDAE, TRIACANTHIDAE, TRIACANTHODIDAE, DIODONTIDAE and TETRAODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
- ^ a b Script error: No such module "Cite taxon".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Maria Corsini; Panagiotis Margies; Gerasimos Kondilatos & Panos S. Economidis (2005). "Lessepsian migration of fishes to the Aegean Sea: first record of Tylerius spinosissimus (Tetraodontidae) from the Mediterranean, and six more fish records from Rhodes" (PDF). Cybium. 29 (4): 347–354. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tylerius spinosissimus" (PDF). Atlas of Exotic Fishes in the Mediterranean Sea (2nd ed.). Paris, Monaco: CIESM Publishers. 2021. pp. 260–261.
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