Ferocious Puffer

Feroxodon multistriatus

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth22–66 m
Water temperature23–29 °C
Best monthsSeptember and October
How commonOccasional

Photo credit: (c) Pål A. Olsvik, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

About this species

Feroxodon multistriatus, known as the manystriped blowfish, manystriped pufferfish, scribbled toadfish, or ferocious pufferfish, is a species in the pufferfish family, Tetraodontidae, distributed in the Indo-West Pacific. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Feroxodon.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Feroxodon”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 15 records
February: 15 records
March: 4 records
April: 8 records
May: 13 records
June: 9 records
July: 6 records
August: 21 records
September: 39 records
October: 27 records
November: 23 records
December: 10 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 22–66 m · Deepest record: 361 m

10–20 m: 7 records
20–30 m: 31 records
30–40 m: 34 records
40–50 m: 21 records
50–60 m: 19 records
60–70 m: 11 records
70–80 m: 6 records
80–90 m: 2 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 1 records
110–120 m: 0 records
120+ m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 23–29 °C

22–24 °C: 16 records
24–26 °C: 36 records
26–28 °C: 99 records
28–30 °C: 16 records

Names and classification

English: Ferocious Puffer, Ferocious Pufferfish, Manystriped blowfish, Many-striped Puffer, Many-striped Pufferfish

Other scientific names: Anchisomus multistriatus

Similar species

Bristly puffer
Arothron hispidus
Guineafowl puffer
Arothron meleagris
Hawaiian Spotted Toby
Canthigaster jactator
Silverstripe blaasop
Lagocephalus sceleratus
evileye blaasop
Amblyrhynchote honckenii
Masked puffer
Arothron diadematus

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.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
210 open-data records from 1971 to 2017.
Species data updated November 2, 2026.

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