Torquigener is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indian and Pacific oceans. Males of at least two Torquigener species are known to make elaborate circular nests on the seafloor.
Species
Twenty species are recognized in this genus:
- Torquigener albomaculosus <small>Matsuura, 2014</small> (white-spotted pufferfish)
- Torquigener altipinnis <small>J. D. Ogilby, 1891</small>
- Torquigener andersonae <small>Hardy, 1983</small> (Anderson's toadfish)
- Torquigener balteus <small>Hardy, 1989</small> (slender blaasop)
- Torquigener brevipinnis <small>Regan, 1903</small>
- Torquigener flavimaculosus <small>Hardy & J. E. Randall, 1983</small>
- Torquigener florealis <small>Cope, 1871</small>
- Torquigener gloerfelti <small>Hardy, 1984</small>
- Torquigener heemstrai <small>K. Matsuura, 2024</small>
- Torquigener hicksi <small>Hardy, 1983</small> (Hick's toadfish)
- Torquigener hypselogeneion <small>Bleeker, 1852</small> (orange-spotted toadfish)
- Torquigener marleyi <small>Fowler, 1929</small>
- Torquigener pallimaculatus <small>Hardy, 1983</small>
- Torquigener parcuspinus <small>Hardy, 1983</small> (yellow-eyed toadfish)
- Torquigener paxtoni <small>Hardy, 1983</small>
- Torquigener perlevis <small>J. D. Ogilby, 1908</small> (spineless toadfish)
- Torquigener pleurogramma <small>Regan, 1903</small> (weeping toadfish)
- Torquigener randalli <small>Hardy, 1983</small> (Randall's puffer)
- Torquigener squamicauda <small>J. D. Ogilby, 1910</small> (brush-tail toadfish)
- Torquigener tuberculiferus <small>J. D. Ogilby, 1912</small>
- Torquigener vicinus <small>Whitley, 1930</small>
- Torquigener whitleyi <small>Paradice, 1927</small> (Whitley's toadfish)
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