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Swelltoads
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Swelltoads

Cyclichthys

Cyclicthys is a genus of fish in the porcupinefish family, Diodontidae. Species in the genus are often known as swelltoads.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Shortspine Porcupinefish

speciesCyclichthys orbicularis

Spotbase Burrfish

speciesCyclichthys spilostylus

Plain Porcupinefish

speciesCyclichthys hardenbergi

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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 87770.