Species: Canthigaster valentini, Black-saddled sharpnose-puffer, Valentini's sharpnose-puffer

Canthigaster valentini (Bleeker, 1853)

Black-saddled sharpnose-puffer, Valentini's sharpnose-puffer

Robust, slightly compressed, inflatable body; head large, blunt; snout long and pointed; 1 pair of small hole-like nostrils; nape with crest between eyes and dorsal fin; eyes high on sides of head; jaws are a small beak composed of 4 fused heavy powerful teeth with a central suture on each jaw; a slit-like gill opening in front of the pectoral fin base; a single short- based dorsal fin at rear of body; a similar-shaped anal fin below the dorsal;dorsal 9; anal rays 9; pectoral rays 16-17; no pelvic fins; no spines in the fins; tail fin rounded to bluntly straight, with 10 main rays; tough scaleless skin, head and body with scattered tiny spinules, no fleshy skin flaps.