Spiny blaasop explained

The spiny blaasop (Tylerius spinosissimus) is a species of pufferfish. Originally native to the Indian Ocean, the southwestern Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean along the coast of South Africa, it has recently colonised the Levantine waters of the Mediterranean Sea, most likely as a Lessepsian migrant ^[1] from the Red Sea or in ballast water. ^[2] This species grows to a length of 5–15 cm (max. 20 cm). It is the only species in its genus.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Maria Corsini . Panagiotis Margies . Gerasimos Kondilatos . Panos S. Economidis . amp . 2005 . Lessepsian migration of fishes to the Aegean Sea: first record of Tylerius spinosissimus (Tetraodontidae) from the Mediterranean, and six more fish records from Rhodes . . 29 . 4 . 347–354 .
2. Atlas of Exotic Fishes in the Mediterranean Sea (Tylerius spinosissimus). 2nd Edition. 2021. 366p. CIESM Publishers, Paris, Monaco.https://ciesm.org/atlas/fishes_2nd_edition/Tylerius_spinosissimus.pdf
3. 2012 . Tylerius Hardy, 1984 . FishBase . 205492 . April 19, 2012.