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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Tetraodontidae |
| Genus: | Tylerius Hardy, 1984 |
| Species: | T. spinosissimus
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| Tylerius spinosissimus | |
References
edit- ^ Nicolas Bailly (2012). Bailly N (ed.). "Tylerius spinosissimus (Regan, 1908)". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Tylerius spinosissimus". FishBase. October 2012 version.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
- ^ 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
- ^ Bailly N, ed. (2012). "Tylerius Hardy, 1984". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
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