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title: "Guineafowl Puffer"
description: "Arothron meleagris — Ryby. Arothron meleagris, commonly known as the guineafowl puffer or golden puffer, is a pufferfish from the Indo-Pacific, and Eastern Pacific."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/guineafowl-puffer
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Guineafowl Puffer

> Arothron meleagris — Ryby. Arothron meleagris, commonly known as the guineafowl puffer or golden puffer, is a pufferfish from the Indo-Pacific, and Eastern Pacific.

- Scientific name: *Arothron meleagris*
- Category: `fish` (Ryby)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 4884
- Wikidata: [Q1433296](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1433296)
- iNaturalist taxon: [83318](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/83318)

## Names

- en: Guineafowl Puffer
- de: Perlhuhn-Kugelfisch
- es: Botete aletas punteadas
- fr: Poisson-ballon pintade
- nl: Parelhoen kogelvis

## Countries with the most observations

MX (1655), US (643), CR (532), EC (521), PA (296), PF (252), MV (87), SC (54), RE (47), TZ (46), ID (41), CO (37)

## Summary

Arothron meleagris, commonly known as the guineafowl puffer or golden puffer, is a pufferfish from the Indo-Pacific, and Eastern Pacific. It is occasionally caught for the aquarium trade. It reaches 50 centimetres (20 in) in length.
Guineafowl puffers have heavy rounded bodies that are uniformly black with numerous small white spots (black puffer or botete negro), bright yellow spots (golden puffer or botete dorado) or a mixture of the two morphologies with bright yellow spots and black patches. They have large blunt heads with short snouts and are equipped with a set of massive teeth. They have small and similarly…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arothron_meleagris

## Photo

![Guineafowl Puffer](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/guineafowl-puffer/medium.jpg)

Photo: Theo Summer · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/259990501

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/guineafowl-puffer?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).