Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Tetraodontiformes > Family Tetraodontidae > Genus Lagocephalus

Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lagocephalus*	Swainson, 1839	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Tetrodon sceleratus*	Gmelin, 1789	orthographic variant

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: silverstripe blaasop sources: Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).

Greek: Ασημένιος λαγοκέφαλος sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Hebrew: לגינון sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: センニンフグ

Literature

basis of record	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
additional source	Golani, D.; Levy, Y. (2005). New records and rare occurrences of fish species from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Zoology in the Middle East. 36(1): 27-32.
additional source	Akyol, O.; Unal, V.; Ceyhan, T.; Bilecenoglu, M. (2005). First confirmed record of Lagocephalus sceleratus(Gmelin, 1789) in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Fish Biology. 66(4): 1183-1186.
additional source	Azzurro, E.; Castriota, L.; Falautano, M.; Giardina, F.; Andaloro, F. (2014). The silver-cheeked toadfish Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) reaches Italian waters. Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 30(5): 1050-1052.
additional source	Corsini, M., Margies, P., Kondilatos , G. & Economidis, P. S. (2006). Three new exotic fish records from the SE Aegean Greek waters. Scientia Marina. 70(2): 319-323.
additional source	Tiralongo, F.; Tibullo, D. (2014). Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789), (Pisces: Tetraodontidae) reaches the Italian Ionian Sea. In: Kapiris et al. (2014) New Mediterranean Marine Biodiversity Records. Mediterranean Marine Science. 15(1): 198–212.
additional source	Ben Rais Lasram, F.; Mouillot, D. (2008). Increasing southern invasion enhances congruence between endemic and exotic Mediterranean fish fauna. Biological Invasions. 11(3): 697-711.
additional source	Šprem, J. D.; Dobroslavić, T.; Kožul, V.; Kuzman, A.; Dulčić, J. (2014). First record of Lagocephalus sceleratus in the Adriatic Sea (Croatian coast), a Lessepsian migrant. Cybium. 38(2): 147–148.
additional source	Deidun, A.; Fenech-Farrugia, A.; Castriota, L.; Falautano, M.; Azzurro, E.; Andaloro, F. (2015). First record of the silver-cheeked toadfish Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) from Malta. BioInvasions Records. 4(2): 139-142.
additional source	Jribi, I.; Bradai, M. (2012). First record of the Lessepsian migrant species Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontidae) in the Central Mediterranean. BioInvasions Records. 1(1): 49-52.
additional source	Izquierdo-Muñoz, A.; Izquierdo-Gomez, D. (2014). First record of Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) Actinopterygii, Tetraodontidae) on the Mediterranean Spanish coast. In: Katsanevakis S et al. (2014), New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (October, 2014). Mediterranean Marine Science 15(3): 675–695.
additional source	Kara, M. H.; Ben Lamine, E.; Francour, P. (2015). Range expansion of an invasive pufferfish, Lagocephalus sceleratus (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), to the south-western Mediterranean. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria. 45(1): 103-108.
additional source	Halim Y.; Rizkalla S. (2011). Aliens in Egyptian Mediterranean waters. A check-list of Erythrean fish with new records. Medit. Mar. Sci. 12 (2): 479-490.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

FishBase
FishBase images (Lagocephalus sceleratus, Greece, by Patzner, R.)

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219954