White-⁠spotted Pufferfish

Description

This photo shows a white-spotted pufferfish, which can reach up to 50 cm in length. It is light grey and yellowish in color, covered with white spots, with contrasting white and dark grey lines that radiate around the eyes and pectoral fins. It lives on outer reef slopes to depths of at least 50 metres, and on inner reef flats and lagoons, across the Indo-West Pacific and in the eastern Pacific. It eats algae, sponges, corals, molluscs and other small animals, and is poisonous to eat.