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Tetraodontinae 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 646100

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subfamily  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2017   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderAcanthopterygii   
                            OrderTetraodontiformes  – leatherjackets, cowfishes, filefishes, puffers, triggerfishes, trunkfishes, balistes, poissons-coffres, poissons-globes  
                               SuborderTetraodontoidei  – puffers, porcupinefishes, tétrodons  
                                  FamilyTetraodontidae  – toadfishes, rabbitfishes, puffers, blowfishes, globefishes, swellfishes, botetes, sphéroïdes  
                                     SubfamilyTetraodontinae   
    Direct Children:  
                                        GenusArothron Müller, 1841 – fat puffers 
                                        GenusAuriglobus Kottelat, 1999  
                                        GenusCarinotetraodon Benl, 1957  
                                        GenusChelonodontops Smith, 1958  
                                        GenusChonerhinos Bleeker, 1854  
                                        GenusColomesus Gill, 1884  
                                        GenusContusus Whitley, 1947  
                                        GenusDichotomyctere Duméril, 1855  
                                        GenusEphippion Bibron in Duméril, 1855  
                                        GenusFeroxodon Su, Hardy & Tyler, 1986  
                                        GenusGeneion Bibron in Duméril, 1855  
                                        GenusGuentheridia Gilbert & Starks, 1904  
                                        GenusJavichthys Hardy, 1985  
                                        GenusLagocephalus Swainson, 1839 – rabbitfishes 
                                        GenusLeiodon Swainson, 1839  
                                        GenusMarilyna Hardy, 1982  
                                        GenusOmegophora Whitley, 1934  
                                        GenusPao Kottelat, 2013  
                                        GenusPelagocephalus Tyler & Paxton, 1979  
                                        GenusPolyspina Hardy, 1983  
                                        GenusReicheltia Hardy, 1982  
                                        GenusSphoeroides Anonymous [Lacepède], 1798 – swellfishes, common puffers 
                                        GenusTakifugu Abe, 1949  
                                        GenusTetractenos Hardy, 1983  
                                        GenusTetraodon Linnaeus, 1758 – swellfishes 
                                        GenusTorquigener Whitley, 1930  
                                        GenusTylerius Hardy, 1984  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nelson, Joseph S.   
  Publication Date: 1994   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fishes of the World, Third Edition   
  Page(s): xvii + 600   
  Publisher: John Wiley and Sons   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-471-54713-1   
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  Reference for: Tetraodontinae   
       

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