Golden brown body colour with blue black-margined spots and strips. Strips emanating from the eye and along the back. Pink around mouth.
Variable: equal amounts of pale and dark areas which could be spots, elongated spots or even reticulated patterning; sometimes with fine blue spots.
Variable: equal amounts of pale and dark areas which could be spots, elongated spots or even reticulated patterning; sometimes with fine blue spots.
Variable: equal amounts of pale and dark areas which could be spots, elongated spots or even reticulated patterning; sometimes with fine blue spots.
Dark brown body colour with fine pale blue spots and strips. Strips emanating from the eye and along the back. Orange around mouth.
White body with four black saddles; lower body covered with spots and forming lines over the snout and around the eyes.
Identify as a pufferfish through lack of spines, clear paddle-like pectoral fins, posterior and anal fins. Slow swimmer. Often sits half-buried in sand. Mottled top of back to aid camouflage against substrate.
Identify as a pufferfish through lack of spines, paddle-like pectoral fins, posterior and anal fins. Slow ungainly swimmer. Named Star & Stripes after the spots on top and the stripes underneath.
Identify as a pufferfish through lack of spines, paddle-like pectoral fins, posterior and anal fins. Slow ungainly swimmer. Named Star & Stripes after the spots on top and the stripes underneath.
Identify as a pufferfish through lack of spines, paddle-like pectoral fins, posterior and anal fins. Slow ungainly swimmer. Blackspotted is also called the dog-faced which is probably the easiest way to distinguish this variant. Colour can be anything from bright yellow, to brown to white to blue-topped. Female is usually paler in colour.
