Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Chilomycterus reticulatus
pez erizo de aleta manchada, pejerizo chiquito, pez erizo del pacífico, pez erizo enano, Pacific burrfish, spotfin burrfish
Bluish gray back, tan or light gray sides shading to white belly. Dusky band under eyes and another forward of pectoral fin. Size: To at least 55 cm
Habitat: Solitary, found along rocky shores and in regions of coral development.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Tetraodontiformes
Suborder
Tetraodontoidei
Family
Diodontidae
Genus
Chilomycterus
Species
reticulatus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Diodon reticulatus Linnaeus, 1758, Diodon tigrinus Cuvier, 1818, Euchilomycterus quadradicatus Waite, 1900, fide Appeltans et al. (2010), Chilomycterus affinis Günther, 1870 fide Appeltans et al. (2013)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: circumtropical; in the eastern Pacific from southern California and the central Gulf of California to Peru, also Easter and Ecuador in the Galapagos Islands Circumglobal. California to Chile and all oceanic islands of the Tropical Eastern Pacific except Clipperton
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- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Chilomycterus reticulatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7820. Accessed 31 May 2025.