Tetraodontidae
Tetraodontidae sunt familia piscium plerumque maritimorum et aestuarinorum ordinis Tetraodontiformium. Diodontidarum morphologice similes sunt, piscium arte cognatorum, quibus sunt magnae spinae externae (spinarum tenuiorum et caelatarum tetraodontidarum dissimiles, quae videri popssunt solum cum piscis inflatus sit). Nomen scientificum quattuor magnos dentes, in laminas superiorem et inferiorem fusos, attingit, qui ad testas crustaceorum et molluscorum contundendas adhibent, eorum praedarum naturalis.

Plurimae tetraodontidarum species toxicae sunt, et nonnullae inter venenosissima orbis terrarum vertebrata numerantur. In aliquibus speciebus, organa interna, sicut iecur et aliquando cutis, tetrodotoxinum continent, unde tetraodontidae pluribus animalibus valdissime toxicae sunt esae; nihilominus, caro nonnullarum specierum mattea habetur in Iaponia (nomine 河豚, fugu), Corea (복, bok et 복어, bogeo), et Sina (河豚, hétún), cum a coquis bene assuetis paretur. Aliiae huius familiae species, quarum caro non est toxicus, sicut Sphoeroides maculatus (species in Sinu Chesapeaco inventa), mattea alibi putantur.

Species Torquigener albomaculosus a Davide Attenborough appellatur "maximus regni animalium artifex" quia mares feminas nidis multiplicum formarum geometricarum in arena faciendis attrahere solent.

Genera 
Familiae Tetraodontidarum sunt saltem ducentae species in viginti novem genera digestae.

 Amblyrhynchotes Troschel, 1856
 Arothron Müller, 1841
 Auriglobus Kottelat, 1999
 Canthigaster Swainson, 1839
 Carinotetraodon Benl, 1957
 Chelonodon Müller, 1841
 Chonerhinos Bleeker, 1854
 Colomesus Gill, 1884
 Contusus Whitley, 1947
 Dichotomyctere Duméril, 1855
 Ephippion Bibron, 1855
 Feroxodon Su, Hardy et Tyler, 1986
 Guentheridia Gilbert et Starks, 1904
 Javichthys Hardy, 1985
 Leiodon Swainson, 1839
 Lagocephalus Swainson, 1839
 Marilyna Hardy, 1982
 Monotrete Bibron, 1855
 Omegaphora Whitley, 1934
 Pelagocephalus Tyler & Paxton, 1979
 Polyspina Hardy, 1983
 Pao Kottelat, 2013
 Reicheltia Hardy, 1982
 Sphoeroides Anonymous, 1798
 Takifugu Abe, 1949
 Tetractenos Hardy, 1983
 Tetraodon Linnaeus, 1758
 Torquigener Whitley, 1930
 Tylerius Hardy, 1984

Pinacotheca

Descriptio
Tetraodontidae plerumque magnitudine sunt parvae ad mediam, sed certae species usque ad 100 centimetra longae crescere possunt.

Distributio
Tetraodontidae diversissimae in zona tropica, aliquantulum rarae in zona temperata, omninoque absentes ab aquis frigidis sunt.

Oecologia et historia vitalis
Plurimae tetraodontidarum species in aquis marinis vel amaris habitant, sed nonnullae aquam dulcem intrare possunt, et triginta quinque fere species omnem vitam in aqua dulci degunt. Quae species inveniuntur in disiunctis regionibus Americae Australis (e.g., Colomesus asellus), Africae (sex species Tetraodontis), et Asiae Meridio-Orientalis (Auriglobus, Carinotetraodon, Dichotomyctere, Leiodon, Pao).

Maculae, fasciae, et alia exemplaria

Notae

Bibliographia

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Blount, Jonathan D., Michael P. Speed, Graeme D. Ruxton, et Philip A. Stephens. 2009. "Warning displays may function as honest signals of toxicity." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276 (1658): 871–77. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1407. PMID 19019790. PMC 2664363.
Ebert, Klaus. 2001. "The Puffers of Fresh and Brackish Water." Aqualog. ISBN 3-931702-60-X.
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Kottelat, M. 2013. " The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries." The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 27: 1–663.
McClane, A. J. 1977. The Encyclopedia of Fish Cookery. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 978-0-03-015431-7. Archivum.
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Santhanam, Ramasamy. 2018. Biology and ecology of toxic pufferfish. Oakville Ontarionis Canadae et Waretown Novae Caesareae: Apple Academic Press; Boca Raton Floridae: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 9781771884396 (hardcover), ISBN 1771884398.

Aposematismus
Shimonoseki

Nexus externi

"Fugu sequencing project," 22 Martii 2009.
"Tetraodon sequencing project."
EMedicine De toxicitatem tetrodotoxini.
Der Tetraodontidis. FishBase.
"A Library of Puffer Fish DNA: Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal."
"Common blowfish Fact Sheet." Fisheries Western Australia.
"Underwater crop circles from Japan are an amazing form of biological art."
Tetraodontida et urinator humanus.
"Dolphins 'getting high' on puffer fish, zoologist Rob Pilley says." News.com.au, 30 Decembris 2013.
"How Puffer fish protect itself," 7 Martii 2014.

Familiae animalium
Pisces commercii
Taxa Bonaparte
Taxa 1832