Auriglobus

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Xenopterus modestus - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ15500009 (cropped)2.jpg | image_caption = ''Auriglobus modestus'' | taxon = Auriglobus | authority = Kottelat, 1999 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 5 species (see text) | range_map = Auriglobus Map.jpg }}

''''' Auriglobus''''' is a genus of freshwater pufferfishes native to Southeast Asia. They generally resemble ''Chonerhinos'', but are considerably smaller, only reaching up to {{convert|13|cm|in|abbr=on}} in length, and are more strongly associated with freshwater.<ref name=fishbase>{{FishBase genus | genus = Auriglobus | month = February | year = 2024}}</ref><ref name=Roberts1982>{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Tyson R. |title=The southeast Asian freshwater pufferfish genus ''Chonerhinos'' (Tetraodontidae), with descriptions of new species |journal=Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences |series=4th series |date=1982 |volume=43 |pages=1–16 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/52903 }}</ref> The different ''Auriglobus'' species are very similar in appearance — greenish-golden or yellowish-golden above and pale below — but can be separated by morphometrics and meristics.<ref name=Roberts1982/> Until 1999, the ''Auriglobus'' species were included in ''Chonerhinos''.<ref name=kott1999>{{cite journal |author-link=Maurice Kottelat |author=Kottelat, M. |year=1999 |title=Nomenclature of the genera ''Barbodes'', ''Cyclocheilichthys'', ''Rasbora'' and ''Chonerhinos'' (Teleostei: Cyprinidae and Tetraodontidae), with comments on the definition of the first reviser |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=591–600 |url=https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/06/47rbz591-600.pdf |access-date=2024-06-18 |archive-date=2017-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101091204/https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/pdf/PUBLICATION/Raffles%20Bulletin%20of%20Zoology/Past%20Volumes/RBZ%2047(2)/47rbz591-600.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Species== There are five recognized species in this genus:<ref name=fishbase/>

* ''Auriglobus amabilis'' (T. R. Roberts, 1982) * ''Auriglobus modestus'' (Bleeker, 1850) (bronze puffer or golden puffer) * ''Auriglobus nefastus'' (T. R. Roberts, 1982) (greenbottle pufferfish) * ''Auriglobus remotus'' (T. R. Roberts, 1982) * ''Auriglobus silus'' (T. R. Roberts, 1982)

== References == {{Reflist}}

Category:Tetraodontidae Category:Freshwater fish genera Category:Taxa named by Maurice Kottelat