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title: "White-spotted Puffer"
description: "Arothron hispidus — Ryby. The white-spotted puffer fish (Arothron hispidus) is a medium to large-sized puffer fish, it can reach 50 cm length."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/white-spotted-puffer
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# White-spotted Puffer

> Arothron hispidus — Ryby. The white-spotted puffer fish (Arothron hispidus) is a medium to large-sized puffer fish, it can reach 50 cm length.

- Scientific name: *Arothron hispidus*
- Category: `fish` (Ryby)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 6683
- Wikidata: [Q954020](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q954020)
- iNaturalist taxon: [144017](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144017)

## Names

- en: White-spotted Puffer
- de: Weißflecken-Kugelfisch
- es: Botete panza rayada
- fr: Poisson ballon à épaule noire
- nl: Witgevlekte kogelvis

## Countries with the most observations

AU (1333), EG (792), NC (521), ID (492), US (488), PH (283), HK (269), CR (261), MX (181), PA (172), TW (127), PF (79)

## Summary

The white-spotted puffer fish (Arothron hispidus) is a medium to large-sized puffer fish, it can reach 50 cm length. It is light grey in color, or greyish or yellowish, and clearly covered with more or less regular white points, that become concentric contrasting white and dark grey lines that radiate around the eyes and pectoral fins. The ventral part is white. The "shoulder" (around the pectoral fins) is dark. It also has concentric contrasting white and dark grey lines that radiate around the eyes and pectoral fins. The white spotted puffer fish is poisonous.
Its distribution extends through the Indo-Pacific area…

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

## Photo

![White-spotted Puffer](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-spotted-puffer/medium.jpg)

Photo: Olly Morgan · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238516300

## Machine access

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