Pelagocephalus marki Heemstra & Smith, 1981 is a animal in the Tetraodontidae family, order Tetraodontiformes, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Pelagocephalus marki Heemstra & Smith, 1981
Pelagocephalus marki, the rippled blaasop, is the only species in the monotypic pufferfish genus Pelagocephalus.
Pelagocephalus is a monotypic genus of pufferfish found along the coasts of South Africa and New Zealand. This genus contains only one species: Pelagocephalus marki Heemstra & Smith, 1981, which is also commonly called the rippled blaasop. This species reaches a total length of approximately 12 centimetres (4.7 inches).
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Sphoeroides greeleyi Gilbert, 1900
Arothron reticularis (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Canthigaster bennetti (Bleeker, 1854)
Torquigener pleurogramma (Regan, 1903)
Arothron stellatus (Anonymous, 1798)
Arothron diadematus (Rüppell, 1829)
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