Environment: milieu / climate zone / rango de profundidad / distribution range					
						Ecología					
				
				
				
					marino asociado a arrecife;  rango de profundidad 2 - 50 m (Ref. 37816). Tropical				
				 
			
			
			
				
				
				
					Indo-West Pacific:  Reunion and Maldives, eastward through Indonesia and Papua New Guinea to the Coral Sea, and northward to Japan.
				
				
			
			
				
					Tamaño / Peso / Age
				
				
				
					Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
 Max length : 80.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 9184)				
				 
			
			
						
				
				
				
					Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 11 - 12; Radios blandos anales: 10 - 12. 
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep.				
				 
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				Found primarily in coral reefs.  Also occurs in temperate waters. Solitary (Ref. 90102).			
			 
			
			
			
				
					Life cycle and mating behavior					
					Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva				
				
				
			
			 
				
				
				
					Matsuura, K., 1994. Arothron caeruleopunctatus, a new puffer from the Indo-western Pacific. Jap. J. Ichthyol. 41(1):29-33. (Ref. 9184)
				
				 
			
			
			
							
					
						IUCN Red List Status   (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
				 
					
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Threat to humans  
				
				
				
					  Poisonous to eat				
				
			 
			
			
			
			
				
					Human uses  				
				
				
					Pesquerías: comercial; Acuario: Comercial				
				
				
			
			
						
			
			
			
				
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					Estimates based on models				
				
				
				Preferred temperature (Referencia 
123201): 24.6 - 29, mean 27.8 °C (based on 710 cells).
				
				
					
					Phylogenetic diversity index  (Referencia 
82804):  PD
50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].					
													Bayesian length-weight: a=0.03715 (0.01590 - 0.08679), b=2.87 (2.70 - 3.04), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Genus-body shape (Ref. 
93245).
					
					Nivel trófico  (Referencia 
69278):  3.5   ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives					
											
				
				
										
						Resiliencia  (Referencia 
120179):  Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).					
											
				
									
					Fishing Vulnerability  (Ref. 
59153):  Moderate to high vulnerability (52 of 100). 
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						Nutrients  (Ref. 
124155):  Calcium = 24.7 [10.0, 60.2] mg/100g; Iron = 0.49 [0.25, 1.07] mg/100g; Protein = 18.5 [16.3, 20.7] %; Omega3 = 0.0983 [, ] g/100g; Selenium = 43.4 [21.7, 92.0] μg/100g; VitaminA = 34.9 [9.9, 122.6] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.804 [0.547, 1.201] mg/100g (wet weight);