Puffer Fish

The Tetraodontidae is primarily a family of marine and estuarine fish. The family includes many different species that are known called puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, bubblefish, Globefish, swellfish, toadfish and Toadies.

They are morphologically similar to porcupinefish closely related, which have large conspicuous spines (unlike the small, almost like sandpaper Tetraodontidae-bones).

The scientific name, Tetraodontidae, refers to the four large teeth, fused in a flat top and bottom, which are used to crush the shells of crustaceans and mollusks, their natural prey.