Spiny blaasop

The spiny blaasop (Tylerius spinosissimus) is a species of pufferfish. Originally native to the Indian Ocean, the southwestern Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean along the coast of South Africa,^[2] it has recently colonised the Levantine waters of the Mediterranean Sea, most likely as a Lessepsian migrant ^[3] from the Red Sea or in ballast water. ^[4] This species grows to a length of 5–15 cm (max. 20 cm).^[2] It is the only species in its genus.^[5]

Tylerius spinosissimus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Tetraodontidae
Genus:	Tylerius Hardy, 1984
Species:	T. spinosissimus
Binomial name
Tylerius spinosissimus (Regan, 1908)[1]

References

1. Nicolas Bailly (2012). Bailly N (ed.). "Tylerius spinosissimus (Regan, 1908)". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Tylerius spinosissimus". FishBase. October 2012 version.
3. Maria Corsini; Panagiotis Margies; Gerasimos Kondilatos & Panos S. Economidis (2005). "Lessepsian migration of fishes to the Aegean Sea: first record of Tylerius spinosissimus (Tetraodontidae) from the Mediterranean, and six more fish records from Rhodes" (PDF). Cybium. 29 (4): 347–354. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
4. Atlas of Exotic Fishes in the Mediterranean Sea (Tylerius spinosissimus). 2nd Edition. 2021. 366p. CIESM Publishers, Paris, Monaco.https://ciesm.org/atlas/fishes_2nd_edition/Tylerius_spinosissimus.pdf
5. Bailly N, ed. (2012). "Tylerius Hardy, 1984". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 19, 2012.