Author: Murray, 1857
Comments: Juveniles and adults are common in the mainstream river (Ref. 2829). Ventral pocket communicates gill chamber with oesophagus, allowing the fish to inflate its body like a ball (Ref. 57417). Liver and sexual organs are poisonous, but fishermen of the upper Cross carefully remove them and eat the flesh of this species (Ref. 81679). Some references to <I>Tetraodon guttifer</I> in the literature may represent misidentifications of <i>T. pustulatus</i> (Ref. 81679).