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Torquigener  Whitley, 1930
Taxonomic Serial No.: 173376

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Sphoeroides (Shippofugu) Abe, 1949
  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2017   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderAcanthopterygii   
                            OrderTetraodontiformes  – leatherjackets, cowfishes, filefishes, puffers, triggerfishes, trunkfishes, balistes, poissons-coffres, poissons-globes  
                               SuborderTetraodontoidei  – puffers, porcupinefishes, tétrodons  
                                  FamilyTetraodontidae  – toadfishes, rabbitfishes, puffers, blowfishes, globefishes, swellfishes, botetes, sphéroïdes  
                                     SubfamilyTetraodontinae   
                                        GenusTorquigener Whitley, 1930  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Species Torquigener albomaculosus Matsuura, 2014  
                                           Species Torquigener altipinnis (Ogilby, 1891)  
                                           Species Torquigener andersonae Hardy, 1983  
                                           Species Torquigener balteus Hardy, 1989  
                                           Species Torquigener brevipinnis (Regan, 1903)  
                                           Species Torquigener flavimaculosus Hardy & Randall, 1983  
                                           Species Torquigener florealis (Cope, 1871)  
                                           Species Torquigener gloerfelti Hardy, 1984  
                                           Species Torquigener hicksi Hardy, 1983  
                                           Species Torquigener hypselogeneion (Bleeker, 1852) – orangebanded blowfish 
                                           Species Torquigener marleyi (Fowler, 1929)  
                                           Species Torquigener pallimaculatus Hardy, 1983  
                                           Species Torquigener parcuspinus Hardy, 1983  
                                           Species Torquigener paxtoni Hardy, 1983  
                                           Species Torquigener perlevis (Ogilby, 1908)  
                                           Species Torquigener pleurogramma (Regan, 1903) – weeping toado 
                                           Species Torquigener randalli Hardy, 1983  
                                           Species Torquigener squamicauda (Ogilby, 1910)  
                                           Species Torquigener tuberculiferus (Ogilby, 1912)  
                                           Species Torquigener vicinus Whitley, 1930  
                                           Species Torquigener whitleyi (Paradice in Paradice & Whitley, 1927)  
       

 References
       
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  Source: Catalog of Fishes, 31-Oct-2014, website (version 31-Oct-14)  
  Acquired: 2014   
  Notes: Eschmeyer, W. N. (ed). Catalog of Fishes. (http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp). Electronic version accessed 03-Nov-2014   
  Reference for: Torquigener   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Torquigener   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Hardy, Graham S.  
  Publication Date: 1983   
  Article/Chapter Title: Revision of Australian species of Torquigener Whitley (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), and two new generic names for Australian puffer fishes   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, vol. 13, no. 1/2   
  Page(s): 1-48   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0303-6758   
  Notes: Available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.1983.10415335   
  Reference for: Torquigener   
       

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