Description

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Common Names

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Hadroom , Arabic , Jordan

Lesh , Carolinian , Micronesia

Masked puffer , English , Micronesia

Naamiopallokala , Finnish , Finland

Masken-Kugelfisch , German , Germany

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Tetraodontiformes

Family: Tetraodontidae

Genus: Arothron

Species: Arothron diadematus (Rüppell, 1829)

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea. Very closely related to and considered by some authors conspecific with the Indo-Pacific Arothron nigropunctatus (Bloch & Schneider).

Biology

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Inhabits coral-rich fringing reefs (Ref. 9710).

Habitat

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associated