Spiny blaasop

The spiny blaasop (Tylerius spinosissimus) is a species of pufferfish. Originally native to the Indian Ocean, the southwestern Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean along the coast of South Africa,[2] it has recently colonised the Levantine waters of the Mediterranean Sea, most likely as a Lessepsian migrant [3] from the Red Sea or in ballast water. [4] This species grows to a length of 5-15 cm (max. 20 cm).[2] It is the only species in its genus.[5]

Tylerius spinosissimus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Tetraodontidae
Genus: Tylerius
Hardy, 1984
Species:
Tylerius spinosissimus
Binomial name
Tylerius spinosissimus
(Regan, 1908)[1]

References
  1. Nicolas Bailly (2012). Bailly N (ed.). "Tylerius spinosissimus (Regan, 1908)". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Tylerius spinosissimus" in FishBase. October 2012 version.
  3. 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.
  4. Atlas of Exotic Fishes in the Mediterranean Sea (Tylerius spinosissimus). 2nd Edition. 2021. 366p. CIESM Publishers, Paris, Monaco.https://ciesm.org/atlas/fishes_2nd_edition/Tylerius_spinosissimus.pdf
  5. Bailly N, ed. (2012). "Tylerius Hardy, 1984". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 19, 2012.


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