Sphoeroides

Sphoeroides
	Sphoeroides dorsalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Tetraodontidae
Subfamily:	Tetraodontinae
Genus:	Sphoeroides; Anonymous (Lacépède), 1798
Species
	See text.
Synonyms
	Crayracion Schaeffer, 1760 (Unav.); Spheroides Lacepède, 1800 (Unav.); Orbidus Rafinesque, 1815 (Unav.); Cirrhisomus Swainson, 1839; Leisomus Swainson, 1839; Chelichthys Müller, 1841 (Missp.); Cirrisomus Bonaparte, 1841 (Missp.); Cheilichthys Agassiz, 1845 (Emend.); Cirrhosomus Agassiz, 1846 (Emend.); Crauracium Agassiz, 1846 (Emend.); Sphaeroides Agassiz, 1846 (Emend.); Spheroldes Auctt. (Missp.); Holocanthus Gronow, 1854; Anchisomus Richardson, 1854; Stenometope Bibron, 1855 (Unav.); Crayracion Bleeker, 1865; Uranostoma Bleeker, 1865; Liosaccus Günther, 1870; Thecapteryx Fowler, 1948;

Sphoeroides is a genus of pufferfishes.

Species

There are currently 23 recognized species in this genus:^[2]

^ An anonymous review of volume I of Lacépède's Histoire naturelle des poissons (in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, 1798, columns 673–680) was apparently the first publication to Latinize several of Lacépède's genera; in this case Lacépède's name was Sphéroïdes.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Sphoeroides". FishBase. October 2012 version.
^ Araujo, Gabriel S.; Kurtz, Yan R.; Sazima, Ivan; Carvalho, Pedro Hollanda; Floeter, Sergio R.; Vilasboa, Anderson; Rotundo, Matheus M.; Ferreira, Carlos E L.; Barreiros, João Pedro; Pitassy, Diane E.; Carvalho-Filho, Alfredo (2023). "Evolutionary history, biogeography, and a new species of Sphoeroides (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae): how the major biogeographic barriers of the Atlantic Ocean shaped the evolution of a pufferfish genus". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 199 (4): 978–993. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad055. hdl:10400.3/6862. Retrieved 10 September 2023.