Chelonodon

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| image = Tetrodon patoca Achilles 182.jpg

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| taxon = Chelonodon

| authority = J. P. Müller, 1841

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = see text

| type_species = Tetrodon kappa

| type_species_authority = Hamilton, 1822

| synonyms = Chelonodontops

}}

Chelonodon is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indo-Pacific. They are mainly found in coastal regions and estuaries, but sometimes in rivers.

Species and taxonomy

There are six recognized species in this genus:{{Catalog of Fishes|genus=Chelonodon|access-date=28 March 2025}}{{FishBase genus | genus = Chelonodon| month = February | year = 2016}}

Chelonodon alvheimi (Psomadakis, Matsuura & Thein, 2018)
Chelonodon kappa (Hamilton, 1822)
Chelonodon laticeps (J. L. B. Smith, 1948) (Blue-spotted blaasop)
Chelonodon leopardus (Day, 1878) (Banded leopard blowfish)
Chelonodon patoca (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Milk-spotted puffer)
Chelonodon pleurospilus (Regan, 1919) (Blaasop beauty)

;Synonyms

Chelonodon bengalensis (Habib et al., 2018) (Bengal reticulated puffer){{cite journal | author1=Habib, K.A. | author2=A.K. Neogi | author3=J. Oh | author4=Y.-H. Lee | author5=C.-G. Kim | year=2018 | title=Chelonodontops bengalensis (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae): A New Species of Puffer Fish from the Northern Bay of Bengal Based on Morphology and DNA Barcode | journal=Ocean Science Journal | volume=54 | issue=1 | pages=79–86 | doi=10.1007/s12601-018-0054-7 | s2cid=91952672}} is a synonym of Chelonodon patoca {{small|(Hamilton, 1822)}}{{cite journal|journal=Zootaxa|date=10 October 2024|volume=5519|issue=4|pages=561–570|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5519.4.5|title=Chelonodontops bengalensis Habib et al. 2018, a junior synonym of Tetrodon patoca Hamilton 1822, with a type species designation for Chelonodon Müller 1841|author=Ralf Britz |author2= Heok Hui Tan |author3= Lukas Rüber |pmid=39645961}}

The type species of Chelonodon was Leiodon cutcutia, making it a synonym of Leiodon. As a consequence, Catalog of Fishes and other authorities instead placed the above species in Chelonodontops. FishBase, however, still uses Chelonodon, and therefore the type was changed to C. kappa in 2024.

References

Category:Tetraodontidae

Category:Ray-finned fish genera

Category:Taxa named by Johannes Peter Müller