tetraodon

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Tetraodon

| fossil_range = Middle Miocene to present{{cite journal

| last = Sepkoski

| first = Jack

| author-link = Jack Sepkoski

| title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera

| journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology

| volume = 364

| page=560

| year = 2002

| url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class

| access-date = 2008-01-08 }}

| image = Tetraodon mbu 2.jpg

| image_caption = Mbu pufferfish (T. mbu)

| image2 = TetraodonLineatus.JPG

| image2_caption = Fahaka pufferfish (T. lineatus)

| authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| type_species = Tetraodon lineatus

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| range_map = Tetraodon Map.jpg

| range_map_caption = Native distribution of Tetraodon species (both extinct and extant)

}}

Tetraodon is a genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae) found in freshwater in Africa. It is the type genus of the family and historically included numerous other species; several Asian species were moved to the genera Dichotomyctere, Leiodon and Pao in 2013.Kottelat, M. (2013). The Fishes of the Inland Waters of Southeast Asia: A Catalogue and Core Bibliography of the Fishes Known to Occur in Freshwaters, Mangroves and Estuaries. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No. 27: 1–663.Eschmeyer, W. N., R. Fricke, and R. van der Laan (18 February 2017). [http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp Catalog of Fishes.] Retrieved 18 February 2017.