: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

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Shao, K. |author2=Liu, M. |author3=Jing, L. |author4=Hardy, G. |author5=Leis, J.L. |author6=Matsuura, K. |date=2014 |title=Arothron firmamentum |volume=2014 |page=e.T193822A2283115 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T193822A2283115.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| 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:Arothron

Category:Fish described in 1850

Category:Marine fish of New Zealand

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