Husbandry
This fishs lives in sea-grass beds and reef flats and feed on different mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms, polychaetes, sea urchins and brittle stars.
Extremly toxic, best left in the wild.
Synonyms:
Sphaeroides spengleri (Bloch, 1785)
Tetrodon spengleri Bloch, 1785
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Tetraodontidae (Family) > Sphoeroides (Genus)