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Sphoeroides angusticeps is light brown to light brown with light speckles, the belly is white, a dark ring can be seen around the eye.
Iris and fins are yellowish, the basal part of the dorsal fin is mostly brown, skin flaps on the back are black.
The pufferfish is more elongated than many other species, especially on the head, which is also more compressed towards the top, making the space between the eyes a narrow, heavily hollowed channel that is no more than the diameter of an eye
The body is smooth.
The jaws are almost the same size, with the upper one perhaps protruding a little. Nostrils tubular, with two lateral openings similar to those of the last species, but slightly higher.
Sphoeroides angusticeps hovers just above the substrate in mixed areas of sand, gravel and boulders and buries itself in the sand at night for self-protection
Synonym: Tetrodon angusticeps Jenyns, 1842 · unaccepted (synonym)
Iris and fins are yellowish, the basal part of the dorsal fin is mostly brown, skin flaps on the back are black.
The pufferfish is more elongated than many other species, especially on the head, which is also more compressed towards the top, making the space between the eyes a narrow, heavily hollowed channel that is no more than the diameter of an eye
The body is smooth.
The jaws are almost the same size, with the upper one perhaps protruding a little. Nostrils tubular, with two lateral openings similar to those of the last species, but slightly higher.
Sphoeroides angusticeps hovers just above the substrate in mixed areas of sand, gravel and boulders and buries itself in the sand at night for self-protection
Synonym: Tetrodon angusticeps Jenyns, 1842 · unaccepted (synonym)
