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Threetooth puffer
| Threetooth puffer Temporal range:
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| Triodon macropterus, with extended belly flap | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Suborder: | Triodontoidei Bleeker, 1859 |
| Family: | Triodontidae Bleeker, 1859[1] |
| Genus: | Triodon Cuvier, 1829 |
| Species: | T. macropterus
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| Binomial name | |
| Triodon macropterus Lesson, 1829
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Triodon macropterus (common name the threetooth puffer and the black-spot keeled pufferfish) is a tetraodontiform fish, the only living species in the genus Triodon and family Triodontidae.[2][3] Other members of the family are known from fossils stretching back to the Eocene.[4] The threetooth puffer was first scientifically described by René Lesson in 1831 and is recognizable for its large belly flap which has the ability to blend into the body when fully retracted.[2][3]
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ a b Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. Ichthyological Research, 62 (1): 72–113.
- ^ a b Gomon, M.F. & Bray, D.J. (2011): Threetooth Puffer, Triodon macropterus, Fishes of Australia.
- ^ Matsuura, K. & Tyler, J.C. (1998). Paxton, J.R. & Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 230. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
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