White-spotted puffer

[3] It is light grey in color, or greyish or yellowish, and clearly covered with more or less regular white points, that become concentric contrasting white and dark grey lines that radiate around the eyes and pectoral fins.

It also has concentric contrasting white and dark grey lines that radiate around the eyes and pectoral fins.

Its distribution extends through the Indo-Pacific area, Red Sea included, to the eastern Pacific Ocean.

[4] A confirmed record was reported recently from the eastern Mediterranean Sea off Cyprus.

Its diet includes calcareous or coralline algae, molluscs, tunicates, sponges, corals, zoanthids, crabs, polychaetes, starfish, urchins, krill, and silversides.