Guineafowl Puffer



The guineafowl puffer is a pufferfish usually found in Indo-Pacific and Eastern Pacific. It has a rounded body covered with prickles and generally brown or golden in color, depending on its life stage. The color highly varies.

Diet: omnivorous, feeding mainly on the tips of corals; also sponges, mollusks, bryozoans, tunicates, forams and algae in a lesser extent.

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