:Starry toado
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| name = Starry toado
| image = Arothron firmamentum (Starry toado).gif
| image_caption = Drawing by Tony Ayling
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Arothron firmamentum
| authority = (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)
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The starry toado (Arothron firmamentum) is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, found in subtropical oceans worldwide, at depths between 10 and 360 m. Its length is up to 40 cm.
File:Tetraodon gillbanksii Clarke, 1870.jpg
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References
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- {{FishBase | genus = Arothron | species = firmamentum | month = May | year = 2006}}
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) {{ISBN|0-00-216987-8}}
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Category:Fish described in 1850
Category:Marine fish of New Zealand
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