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Crowned Puffer
Canthigaster coronata (Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875)
A Crowned Puffer at a depth of 15m, Flinders Reef, southern Queensland, May 2002. View larger image.
Above and below: A pair of courting Crowned Puffers at a depth of 15m, Flinders Reef, southern Queensland, May 2002. View larger image.
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The Crowned Puffer is white with a brown saddle dorsally behind the eye and three saddles on the body. It resembles the Saddled Puffer but has orange spots and blue makings on the margins of the saddles.
The Crowned Puffer grows to 14cm in length.
It occurs in tropical (and some temperate) marine waters of the Indo-West and Central Pacific.
In Australia it is known from the central coast of Western Australia, around the tropical north and south to the New South Wales south coast.
View a map of the collecting localities of specimens in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.
Further reading
- Kuiter, R.H. 1996. Guide to Sea Fishes of Australia. New Holland. Pp. 433.
- Kuiter, R.H. 2000. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Gary Allen. Pp. 437.
- Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & R.C. Steene. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Crawford House Press. Pp. 557.
