Shy Toby, Canthigaster ocellicincta Allen & Randall 1977

Other Names: Circle-barred Puffer, Circle-barred Pufferfish, Circle-barred Toby

A Shy Toby, Canthigaster ocellicincta, at Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji, November 2016. Source: Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Summary:

A very shy, secretive brownish puffer with a pair of white bars in a darker patch on the side, an ocellated spot below the dorsal fin, blue vertical lines on the head, blue lines or dashes along the back, and blue spots on the abdomen and rear of the body.

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Dianne J. Bray, Canthigaster ocellicincta in Fishes of Australia, accessed 24 Mar 2023, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1289

Shy Toby, Canthigaster ocellicincta Allen & Randall 1977

More Info

Distribution	One Tree Island, Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Found elsewhere in the Western Pacific from the Philippines and eastern Indonesia to Fiji, north to the Ryukyu Islands in southern Japan, and south to the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia. Inhabits invertebrate-rich inshore reefs to outer reef walls, and reef pinnacles, usually sheltering in caves and crevices at depths of about 25 m or more - usuallu singly or in pairs.
Features	Dorsal fin 9; Anal fin 9; Pectoral fin 16.
Species Citation	Canthigaster ocellicincta Allen & Randall, 1977, Rec. Aust. Mus. 30(17): 485, fig. 3B.
Author	Dianne J. Bray
Resources	Australian Faunal Directory

Shy Toby, Canthigaster ocellicincta Allen & Randall 1977

References

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Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp.

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 507 pp. figs.

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.

Russell, B.C. 1983. Annotated checklist of the coral reef fishes in the Capricorn-Bunker group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Special Publication Series 1: 1-184 figs 1-2

Shao, K., Leis, J.L., Matsuura, K., Jing, L., Hardy, G. & Liu, M. 2014. Canthigaster ocellicincta. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T193723A2266671. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T193723A2266671.en. Downloaded on 09 December 2016.