-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Chordates (Phylum Chordata)

-Vertebrates (Subphylum Vertebrata)

-Ray-finned Fishes (Class Actinopterygii)

-Puffers and Filefishes (Order Tetraodontiformes)

-Pufferfishes, Porcupinefishes, and Molas (Suborder Tetraodontoidei)

-Pufferfishes (Family Tetraodontidae)

-Genus Arothron

-White-spotted Puffer (Arothron hispidus)​

This large pufferfish species is known from lagoons, coastal bays, and inner reef flats where there are sandy stretches with rubble and sparse seagrass, at depths of between 3 and 50 metres. hey typically feed on various types of algae (including coralline), mollusks, crabs, tunicates, sponges, corals, zoanthids, tube worms, and echinoderms; feeding on hard prey keeps the beak from overgrowing.