Lagocephalus lunaris Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Figure 2K) Material examined: India: Puducherry, Pillaichavadi fish landing centre, (12°0’31”, 79°51’ 31” NE 4892), 23.i.2020, 6 exs., leg. Nithya Mary [MBRC /ZSI/F- 2428]. Common Name: Lunar tail puffer, Green Rough-backed Puffer, Moontail Puffer, Spiny back Toadfish. Habitat: Marine-Demersal. Diet Pattern: Benthic Invertebrates. Distribution: India: Puducherry, Andaman (Rao, 2003), West Bengal (Mahabatra & Lakra, 2015), Odisha (Pati et al., 2018), Tamil Nadu (Gopalakrishnan et al., 2012), Kerala (Kumar & Raghavan, 2015). Elsewhere: Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Japan to Australia (Randall, 1995).

Published as part of Mary, S. Nithya, Ravitchandirane, V. & Gunalan, B., 2021, Checklist of order Tetraodontiformes (Actinopterygii) from Puducherry Coasts, Southeast Coast of India with Nine New Records, pp. 393-404 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (3) on page 398, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i3/2021/155960, http://zenodo.org/record/13186261