Canthigaster punctata

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Canthigaster punctata

| status = DD

| 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. |year=2014 |title=Canthigaster punctata |volume=2014 |page=e.T193780A2276039 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T193780A2276039.en |access-date=5 August 2023}}

| authority = Matsuura, 1992

}}

Canthigaster punctata{{Cite web|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Canthigaster punctata Matsuura, 1992|url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=275263|access-date=2022-01-19|website=www.marinespecies.org}} is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is a tropical marine species known only from the Mascarene Submarine Ridge in the Indian Ocean. It is reportedly oviparous.{{Cite web|date=2021|editor-last=Froese|editor-first=Rainer|editor2-last=Pauly|editor2-first=Daniel|title=Canthigaster punctata|url=https://www.fishbase.se/summary/55015|url-status=live|website=FishBase|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725133008/http://www.fishbase.se/summary/55015 |archive-date=2014-07-25 }}