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[alton]

Try this wetwebmedia.com/tetraodontpuffers.htm

[dow]

Does he look like this:http://wetwebmedia.com/TetraodontiformPIX/PufferPIX/Tetraodontidae/Arothron_stellatusAQ2.jpg

or this: http://wetwebmedia.com/TetraodontiformPIX/PufferPIX/Tetraodontidae/Canthigastrinae/Arothron_stellatus_KBR.jpg

or this:http://wetwebmedia.com/TetraodontiformPIX/PufferPIX/Tetraodontidae/Arothron_stellatusRED2.jpg
If so, then wet web media says the following:


Arothron stellatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801), the Starry Toado. Indo-Pacific, Red Sea, east coast of Africa. To forty eight inches... not a misprint, yes, four feet in length. For huge systems only... and devoted puffer lovers. A captive specimen of about ten inches length and two individuals in N. Sulawesi and Gili Air, Lombok, Indonesia. The last of much larger size (about two feet overall).

That's the only one I saw there that had white spots.

HTH