Any web references to a teeth structure of sharpnosed puffers?

[dendro982]

Can anybody help with links to the photos or description of the upper teeth structure for a tobies, or sharpnosed puffers - one fuzed tooth or a two separate? Or photos of your puffer's teeth?

I have the valentini puffer, and just was told, that for a puffers should be one uninterrupthed tooth, and mine has two separate:


The bleeding lip is a self-inflicted damage - he panicked during catching.

May be I damaged it during the first dental surgery, only couldn't imagine how it was possible - the cut was in perpendicular direction, new cuticle cutter...

Thanks.

[bureau13]

I've never seen a good close-up of my Fiji spotted puffer's teeth...or tooth. It looks to me like one tooth, but I've really never got that good a view of it.

jds

[dendro982]

I also can't see them - too fast moving fish, only on photos - before feeding and in the point or turning back during circling along the glass, he slows for a sec at the top.

Now I'm just curious, searched the web and found anything, starting from a fused, having suture between, to separated by visible gap and drawing of 4 teeth. No photos, although.

Any input on your puffer teeth is welcome.