Torquigener squamicauda

Torquigener squamicauda, commonly known as the brush-tail toadfish or scalytail toadfish, is a species of fish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is found in the coastal waters off eastern Australia from Yeppoon in Queensland to Wattamolla just south of Sydney in New South Wales.[1]

Torquigener squamicauda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Tetraodontidae
Genus: Torquigener
Species:
T. squamicauda
Binomial name
Torquigener squamicauda
Synonyms

Spheroides squamicauda Ogilby, 1911
Crayracion erythrotaenia Kner

James Douglas Ogilby described the brush-tail toadfish in 1911 from a specimen collected in Moreton Bay by J.T. Jamieson.

Reaching 15 cm (6 in) in length,[2] Torquigener squamicauda has an elongate body with a rounded back and flattened belly. It has a small mouth at its apex with thin lips that have numerous papillae and a prominent chin. It has pale greyish to olive-green upperparts flecked with green and brown.[1]

It is possibly poisonous.[3]

References
  1. Hardy, Graham S. (1983). "Revision of Australian species of Torquigener Whitley (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), and two new generic names for Australian puffer fishes". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 13 (1/2): 1–48 [32–34]. doi:10.1080/03036758.1983.10415335.
  2. McGrouther, Mark (7 August 2013). "Scalytail Toadfish, Torquigener squamicauda (Ogilby, 1910)". nature culture discover. Sydney, Australia: Australian Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  3. Bray, Dianne J. (2011). "Scalytail Toadfish, Torquigener squamicauda (Ogilby 1910)4". Fishes of Australia. Museum Victoria. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
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