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Sphoeroides lispus Walker, 1996
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Sphoeroides lispus
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Sphoeroides lispus

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Overview
Main identification features
  • head long; between eyes wide and flat
  • back: 3 dark saddles, white dots
  • skin without spines
Naked puffer, Smooth puffer

Body oblong, thick; head relatively long and slender; wide and flat between eyes (distance between eyes at least 2.5X snout length); nasal organ a short papilla with 2 small holes at end; skin without spines; no skin flaps; dorsal 8, anal 7, pectoral 12-15; tail slightly rounded.

Light brown to grey, paler below; back with 3 dark indistinct bars - behind pectoral, under dorsal, on tail base; small white dots and streaks on upper body; dark bar between eyes; dorsal and anal, and pectoral pale; tail with dark base, dark outer 1/2 and pale margin.

Size: 35.2 cm.

Habitat: demersal on soft and rubble bottoms.

Depth: 1-20 m.

Central Baja to the Gulf of California.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California); Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos).
Depth Range Max: 20 m.
Depth Range Min: 1 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; octopus/squid/cuttlefish.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=32; Southern limit=24; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-110; Latitudinal range=8; Longitudinal range=5.
Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Sand & gravel; Soft bottom only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 35.2 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Cortez + Mexican provinces endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


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References
  • Findley, L.T., Hendrickx, M.E., Brusca, R.C., van der Heiden, A.M., Hastings, P.A., Torre, J., 2003., Diversidad de la Macrofauna Marina del Golfo de California, Mexico., CD-ROM versión 1.0. Projecto de la Macrofauna del Golfo .  Derechos reservados de los autores y Conservación Internacional.
  • Galván-Magaña, F., Gutiérrez-Sánchez, F., Abitia-Cárdenas, L.A., Rodríguez-Romero, J., 2000., The distribution and affinities of the shore fishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Eds. M. Manuwar, S.G. Lawrence, I.F. Manuwar & D.F. Malley. Ecovision World Monograph Series., Backhuys Publishers:383-398.
  • Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp.
  • Nuñez-Vázquez, E.J., Yotsu-Yamashita, M., Sierra-Beltrán, A.P., Yasumoto, T., Ochoa, J.L., 2000., Toxicities and distribution of tetrodotoxin in the tisues of puffer fish found in the coast of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico., Toxicon, 38:729-734.
  • Thomson , D.A. , Findley , L.T. and Kerstitch, A.N., 2000., Reef fishes of the Sea of Cortez., University of Texas Press(Revised Ed.):353.
  • Walker , H. J. and Bussing, W. A., 1996., Two new pufferfishes of the genus Sphoeroides from the Eastern Pacific., Copeia, 1996:677-684.

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Sphoeroides lispus, Naked puffer
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Sphoeroides lispus Walker , 1996

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Tetraodontiformes (Puffers and filefishes) > Tetraodontidae (Puffers) > Tetraodontinae
Etymology: Sphoeroides: Greek, sphaira = ball + Greek, suffix, oides = similar to (Ref. 45335 ) .

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

Marine; demersal; depth range 5 - 20 m (Ref. 13103 ). Subtropical

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Eastern Pacific: throughout the Gulf of California to Baja Magdalena.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L m   ?   range ? - ? cm
Max length : 35.2 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 39877 )

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Adults found in bays and over sandy bottoms, small juveniles often in more open areas over cobble or rocky bottoms (Ref. 13103 ).

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Walker, H.J. Jr. and W.A. Bussing , 1996. Two new pufferfishes fo the genus Sphoeroides from the Eastern Pacific. Copeia 1996(3):677-684. (Ref. 13103 )

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435 )

  Least Concern (LC)  ; Date assessed: 01 May 2008

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361 )

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201 ): 17 - 25, mean 22.4 °C (based on 102 cells). Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. Bayesian length-weight: a=0.02291 (0.01026 - 0.05115), b=2.89 (2.72 - 3.06), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref. 93245 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  3.5   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives Resilience (Ref. 120179 ):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Low to moderate vulnerability (25 of 100).

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