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Diodontidae
black-blotched porcupinefish
Diodon liturosus
Inflates with water and raises spines
- Black
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Deep-bodied
- Large
- Tropical fish
Black
Tropical
Africa
Deep-bodied
Largeblack-blotched porcupinefish is a marine fish from Indo-Pacific. It inhabits marine waters. The largest recorded length is 65 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Diodontidae
- Genus
- Diodon
- Maximum length
- 65 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: East Africa to the Society Islands, north to southern Japan, south to New South Wales. Not present in Hawaii (Ref. 9680 ). Southeast Atlantic: southeast coast of South Africa (Ref. 4423 ).
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