evileye blaasop

Amblyrhynchote honckenii

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth23–120 m
Water temperature16–29 °C
Best monthsSeptember
How commonOccasional

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Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 5 records
February: 9 records
March: 12 records
April: 29 records
May: 34 records
June: 38 records
July: 6 records
August: 5 records
September: 105 records
October: 28 records
November: 5 records
December: 3 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 23–120 m · Deepest record: 339.5 m

0–10 m: 6 records
10–20 m: 2 records
20–30 m: 4 records
30–40 m: 22 records
40–50 m: 15 records
50–60 m: 6 records
60–70 m: 6 records
70–80 m: 2 records
80–90 m: 4 records
90–100 m: 2 records
100–110 m: 1 records
110+ m: 14 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 16–29 °C

16–18 °C: 27 records
18–20 °C: 184 records
20–22 °C: 14 records
22–24 °C: 21 records
24–26 °C: 13 records
26–28 °C: 6 records
28–30 °C: 2 records

Names and classification

English: evileye blaasop, Evil-eye Blaasop, Evileye Puffer, Evileye Pufferfish

Names in 1 more languages

Thai: ปลาปักเป้าตาปีศาจ

Other scientific names: Amblyrhinchotus honckenii, Amblyrhynchotes honckemi, Amblyrhynchotes honckenii, Lagocephalus blochi, Sphoeroides honckeni, Tetraodon honckenii, Tetrodon honckenii

Similar species

Bristly puffer
Arothron hispidus
Guineafowl puffer
Arothron meleagris
Silverstripe blaasop
Lagocephalus sceleratus
Narrow-lined toadfish
Arothron immaculatus
Narrow-lined Puffer
Arothron manilensis
Map puffer
Arothron mappa

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
302 open-data records from 1785 to 2023.

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