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spotbase burrfish (Cyclichthys spilostylus)
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spotbase burrfish (Cyclichthys spilostylus) specimen
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Diodontidae

spotbase burrfish

Cyclichthys spilostylus

Diodontid Fish beneath the Red Sea

  • Tropical
  • Transcontinental
  • Marine fish
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Africa
  • East Asia
  • Oceania
  • Southeast Asia
  • West Asia
  • Deep-bodied
  • Medium
  • Tropical fish

spotbase burrfish is known from Indo-West Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.

Maximum length
34 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
deep_bodied
Distribution
Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea to South Africa and east to southern Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Caledonia (Ref. 9680 ). Eastern Pacific: Galapagos Islands (Ref. 5227 ). Lessepsian migrant to the Mediterranean (Israel) (Ref. 43448 ).

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