Threetooth Puffer (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The threetooth puffer, Triodon macropterus, is a tetraodontiform fish, the only living species in the genus Triodon and family Triodontidae. Other members of the family are known from fossils stretching back to the Eocene. It is native to the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Its name comes from the Greek tria meaning "three" and odous meaning "tooth," and refers to the three fused teeth making up a beak-like structure.