{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Canthigaster aziz | authority = Matsuura, Bogorodsky, Mal & Alpermann 2020 }}
'''''Canthigaster aziz''''',<ref>{{Cite web|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Canthigaster aziz Matsuura, Bogorodsky, Mal & Alpermann, 2020|url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1493304|access-date=2022-01-19|website=www.marinespecies.org|language=en}}</ref> known as '''Aziz's toby''' is a species of pufferfish in the family Tetraodontidae. It was described in 2020 by Keiichi Matsuura, Sergey V. Bogorodsky, Ahmad O. Mal, and Tilman J. Alpermann based on a single specimen collected from the northern Red Sea off of Saudi Arabia. It was trawled from a depth of 315 m (1033 ft), which is reportedly the second highest depth at which any fish of the genus ''Canthigaster'' has been collected. The only known specimen measures 2 cm (0.8 inches) SL. The species was named after the King Abdulaziz University. It is thought to have been collected over a hard substrate as the trawling gear used to collect it was severely damaged during operation.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021|editor-last=Froese|editor-first=Rainer|editor2-last=Pauly|editor2-first=Daniel|title=''Canthigaster aziz''|url=https://www.fishbase.de/summary/Canthigaster-aziz|url-status=live|website=FishBase|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119055517/https://www.fishbase.de/summary/Canthigaster-aziz |archive-date=2022-01-19 }}</ref>
Evolutionarily, ''C. aziz'' belongs to a unique and newly discovered lineage of ''Canthigaster'', being phylogenetically distinct from all of its congeners.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Matssura|first1=Keiichi|last2=Bogorodsky|first2=Sergey V.|last3=Ahmad O.|first3=Mal|last4=Apermann|first4=Tilman J.|date=2020|title=Canthigaster aziz, a new deep-dwelling toby fish (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from the Red Sea|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4834.1.5|journal=Zootaxa|publisher=Magnolia Press|volume=4834|issue=1|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4834.1.5|pmid=33056133 |s2cid=222835789 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
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Category:Taxa named by Keiichi Matsuura Category:Taxa named by Sergey V. Bogorodsky Category:Taxa named by Ahmad O. Mal Category:Taxa named by Tilman J. Alpermann Category:Fish described in 2020 aziz Category:Fish of the Red Sea
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