Triodon macropterus, Threetooth puffer

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Triodon macropterus Lesson, 1831

Threetooth puffer
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Tetraodontiformes (Puffers and filefishes) > Triodontidae (Three-toothed puffer)
Etymology: Triodon: Greek, tres, tria = three + Greek, odous = teeth (Ref. 45335).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 50 - 300 m (Ref. 4419). Tropical

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Indo-West Pacific: East Africa to the Philippines, north to Japan, south to Australia and New Caledonia. Recently reported from Tonga (Ref. 53797).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 54.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4419)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal soft rays (total): 10-12; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 9 - 10. Body yellowish-brown; belly flap white except for a yellow area around a black blotch (Ref. 4419). The 2.0 cm recruit differs from the adult in the structure of its viscera, most strikingly by the presence of the very large distended stomach, lacking in the adult (Ref. 54815).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Rare species (Ref. 4419).

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Smith, M.M., 1986. Triodontidae. p. 894. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (Ref. 4419)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 126983)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 14.8 - 26.8, mean 21.1 °C (based on 524 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 1.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01995 (0.00906 - 0.04395), b=3.01 (2.83 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.1   ±0.27 se; based on food items.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (42 of 100).
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 32.4 [14.0, 72.2] mg/100g ; Iron = 0.591 [0.306, 1.333] mg/100g ; Protein = 18.2 [15.9, 20.4] % ; Omega3 = 0.12 [0.06, 0.23] g/100g ; Selenium = 64.5 [32.7, 137.0] μg/100g ; VitaminA = 31 [8, 118] μg/100g ; Zinc = 0.962 [0.642, 1.437] mg/100g (wet weight);