Least puffer [SEP] parent taxon
Least puffer
Least puffer, "Sphoeroides parvus", is a species in the family Tetraodontidae, or pufferfishes. This species is the common bay and inshore puffer for the waters around Texas and Louisiana. It has also been found as far east as Apalachicola Bay and south to Yucatán. Mature least puffers are small, usually less than four inches (100 mm).
Description.
Least puffers are tetraodontids, meaning their teeth have fused into beaks with a median division that produces two plates in the upper and
the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and its threat level is not evaluated by either. Despite being described as rare in China and Southeast Tibet, because the taxon is treated instead as a subspecies of "S. leucopsis", the evaluation of its population incorporates the relative abundance of its parent species. Concomitantly, it takes on its parent category of least concern. As "S. przewalskii" has not been extensively studied independently from "S. leucopsis", a classification of data deficient could be applied, but the rarity of