# Torquigener

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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
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| image = Torquigener hypselogeneion.jpg
| image_caption = ''Torquigener hypselogeneion''
| taxon = Torquigener
| authority = [Whitley](/source/Gilbert_Percy_Whitley), 1930
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'''''Torquigener''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [pufferfish](/source/pufferfish)es native to the [Indian](/source/Indian_Ocean) and [Pacific oceans](/source/Pacific_Ocean). 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](/source/Torquigener_albomaculosus)'' <small>[Matsuura](/source/Keiichi_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](/source/Torquigener_altipinnis)'' <small>[J. D. Ogilby](/source/James_Douglas_Ogilby), 1891</small>
* ''[Torquigener andersonae](/source/Torquigener_andersonae)'' <small>[Hardy](/source/Graham_S._Hardy), 1983</small> (Anderson's toadfish)
* ''[Torquigener balteus](/source/Torquigener_balteus)'' <small>Hardy, 1989</small> (slender blaasop)
* ''[Torquigener brevipinnis](/source/Torquigener_brevipinnis)'' <small>[Regan](/source/Charles_Tate_Regan), 1903</small>
* ''[Torquigener flavimaculosus](/source/Torquigener_flavimaculosus)'' <small>Hardy & [J. E. Randall](/source/John_Ernest_Randall), 1983</small>
* ''[Torquigener florealis](/source/Torquigener_florealis)'' <small>[Cope](/source/Edward_Drinker_Cope), 1871</small>
* ''[Torquigener gloerfelti](/source/Torquigener_gloerfelti)'' <small>Hardy, 1984</small>
* ''[Torquigener heemstrai](/source/Torquigener_heemstrai)'' <small>[K. Matsuura](/source/Keiichi_Matsuura), 2024</small>
* ''[Torquigener hicksi](/source/Torquigener_hicksi)'' <small>Hardy, 1983</small> (Hick's toadfish)
* ''[Torquigener hypselogeneion](/source/Torquigener_hypselogeneion)'' <small>[Bleeker](/source/Pieter_Bleeker), 1852</small> (orange-spotted toadfish)
* ''[Torquigener marleyi](/source/Torquigener_marleyi)'' <small>[Fowler](/source/Henry_Weed_Fowler), 1929</small>
* ''[Torquigener pallimaculatus](/source/Torquigener_pallimaculatus)'' <small>Hardy, 1983</small>
* ''[Torquigener parcuspinus](/source/Torquigener_parcuspinus)'' <small>Hardy, 1983</small> (yellow-eyed toadfish)
* ''[Torquigener paxtoni](/source/Torquigener_paxtoni)'' <small>Hardy, 1983</small>
* ''[Torquigener perlevis](/source/Torquigener_perlevis)'' <small>J. D. Ogilby, 1908</small> (spineless toadfish)
* ''[Torquigener pleurogramma](/source/Torquigener_pleurogramma)'' <small>Regan, 1903</small> (weeping toadfish)
* ''[Torquigener randalli](/source/Torquigener_randalli)'' <small>Hardy, 1983</small> (Randall's puffer)
* ''[Torquigener squamicauda](/source/Torquigener_squamicauda)'' <small>J. D. Ogilby, 1910</small> (brush-tail toadfish)
* ''[Torquigener tuberculiferus](/source/Torquigener_tuberculiferus)'' <small>J. D. Ogilby, 1912</small>
* ''[Torquigener vicinus](/source/Torquigener_vicinus)'' <small>[Whitley](/source/Gilbert_Percy_Whitley), 1930</small>
* ''[Torquigener whitleyi](/source/Torquigener_whitleyi)'' <small>[Paradice](/source/William_Edward_John_Paradice), 1927</small> (Whitley's toadfish)

==References==
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