Puffers and Filefishes (Tetraodontiformes)

The Puffers and Filefishes (Tetraodontiformes) order has 284 species in the Guppies.za.net fish encyclopedia, 81 of which are kept in home aquariums.

Families

• Deepwater boxfishes (Aracanidae) 9 species
• Triggerfishes (Balistidae) 32 species, 20 aquarium
• Porcupinefishes (burrfishes) (Diodontidae) 18 species, 4 aquarium
• Molas or Ocean Sunfishes (Molidae) 4 species
• Filefishes (Monacanthidae) 77 species, 13 aquarium
• Boxfishes (Ostraciidae) 20 species, 13 aquarium
• Puffers (Tetraodontidae) 106 species, 30 aquarium
• Triplespines (Triacanthidae) 7 species, 1 aquarium
• Spikefishes (Triacanthodidae) 10 species
• Three-toothed puffer (Triodontidae) 1 species