{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Torquigener hypselogeneion.jpg | image_caption = ''Torquigener hypselogeneion'' | taxon = Torquigener | authority = Whitley, 1930 }}
'''''Torquigener''''' is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indian and Pacific oceans. Males of at least two ''Torquigener'' species are known to make elaborate circular nests on the seafloor.<ref name="Journal of Fish Biology 2020">{{cite journal|last1=Bond|first1=Todd|last2=Mueller|first2=Robert J.|last3=Birt|first3=Matthew J.|last4=Prince|first4=Jane|last5=Miller|first5=Karen|last6=Partridge|first6=Julian C.|last7=McLean|first7=Dianne L.|title=Mystery pufferfish create elaborate circular nests at mesophotic depths in Australia|journal=Journal of Fish Biology|volume=97|issue=5|pages=1401–1407|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.14506|doi=10.1111/jfb.14506|access-date=21 May 2023|year=2020|pmid=32820821 |bibcode=2020JFBio..97.1401B |hdl=10536/DRO/DU:30148257|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
==Species== Twenty species are recognized in this genus: * ''Torquigener albomaculosus'' <small>Matsuura, 2014</small> (white-spotted pufferfish) <ref name="Matsuura2014">{{cite journal|author=Matsuura, K. |year=2014 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10228-014-0428-5 |title=A new pufferfish of the genus ''Torquigener'' that builds "mystery circles" on sandy bottoms in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae)|journal=Ichthyological Research|volume= 62 |issue=2|pages= 207–212|doi=10.1007/s10228-014-0428-5 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> * ''Torquigener altipinnis'' <small>J. D. Ogilby, 1891</small> * ''Torquigener andersonae'' <small>Hardy, 1983</small> (Anderson's toadfish) * ''Torquigener balteus'' <small>Hardy, 1989</small> (slender blaasop) * ''Torquigener brevipinnis'' <small>Regan, 1903</small> * ''Torquigener flavimaculosus'' <small>Hardy & J. E. Randall, 1983</small> * ''Torquigener florealis'' <small>Cope, 1871</small> * ''Torquigener gloerfelti'' <small>Hardy, 1984</small> * ''Torquigener heemstrai'' <small>K. Matsuura, 2024</small> * ''Torquigener hicksi'' <small>Hardy, 1983</small> (Hick's toadfish) * ''Torquigener hypselogeneion'' <small>Bleeker, 1852</small> (orange-spotted toadfish) * ''Torquigener marleyi'' <small>Fowler, 1929</small> * ''Torquigener pallimaculatus'' <small>Hardy, 1983</small> * ''Torquigener parcuspinus'' <small>Hardy, 1983</small> (yellow-eyed toadfish) * ''Torquigener paxtoni'' <small>Hardy, 1983</small> * ''Torquigener perlevis'' <small>J. D. Ogilby, 1908</small> (spineless toadfish) * ''Torquigener pleurogramma'' <small>Regan, 1903</small> (weeping toadfish) * ''Torquigener randalli'' <small>Hardy, 1983</small> (Randall's puffer) * ''Torquigener squamicauda'' <small>J. D. Ogilby, 1910</small> (brush-tail toadfish) * ''Torquigener tuberculiferus'' <small>J. D. Ogilby, 1912</small> * ''Torquigener vicinus'' <small>Whitley, 1930</small> * ''Torquigener whitleyi'' <small>Paradice, 1927</small> (Whitley's toadfish)
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Category:Torquigener Category:Tetraodontidae Category:Marine fish genera Category:Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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