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Porcupinefishes
Diodontidae
Porcupinefishes are medium-to-large fish belonging to the family Diodontidae from the order Tetraodontiformes which are also commonly called blowfishes and, sometimes, balloonfishes and globefishes. The family includes about 18 species. They are sometimes collectively called pufferfishes, not to be confused with the morphologically similar and closely related Tetraodontidae, which are more commonly given this name.
They are found in shallow, temperate, and tropical seas worldwide. A few species are found much further out from shore, wherein large schools of thousands of individuals can occur.
7 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 19 known species
Diodon
genusDiodon
Burrfishes
genusChilomycterus
Allomycterus
genusAllomycterus
Dicotylichthys
genusDicotylichthys
Swelltoads
genusCyclichthys
Tragulichthys
genusTragulichthys
Lophodiodon
genusLophodiodon
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49270.