The taxonomic revision of the Genus Takifugu(Tetraodontidae) was conducted based on the specimens collected from the coasts of Korea Peninsula from July, 1990 to August, 1994.
The species relationships of 15 species of the genus Takifugu were studie...
The taxonomic revision of the Genus Takifugu(Tetraodontidae) was conducted based on the specimens collected from the coasts of Korea Peninsula from July, 1990 to August, 1994.
The species relationships of 15 species of the genus Takifugu were studied based on external morphological characters. Of these, 3 species are new to the Korean fish fauna. They are Takifugu bimaculatus (Richardson). Takifugu snyderi(Abe) and Takifugu sp...
Based on spinous scales(prickles), the species of T. alboplumbeus, T. rubripes, T. chinensis, T. xanthopterus, T. niphobles, T. stictonotus, T. flavidus, T. bimaculatus have dorsal and ventral region, and those of T. obscurus have dorsal, ventral and opercular region, while T. snyderi, T. vermicularis, T. prophyreus have no spinous scales. Takifugu stictonotus have larger ventral spinous scales than dorsal ones.
Takifugu alboplumbeus and T. poecilonotus were considered ancestral group because of the ancestral character of the vertebrae, dorsal and anal fin ray and pterygiophors.