Long-spine porcupinefish
Long-spine porcupinefish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
Family: | Diodontidae |
Genus: | Diodon |
Species: | D. holocanthus
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Binomial name | |
Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758
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Distribution of the long-spine porcupinefish |
The long-spine porcupinefish (Diodon holocanthus), also known as the freckled porcupinefish, porcupine puffer, and porcupine pufferfish, is a
Description
The long-spine porcupinefish is pale in color with large black blotches and smaller black spots; these spots becoming fewer in number with age. It has many long, two-rooted depressible spines particularly on its head. The teeth of the two jaws are fused into a parrot-like "beak". Adults may reach 50 cm (20 in) in length.[3] The only other fish with which it might be confused is the black-blotched porcupinefish (Diodon liturosus), but it has much longer spines than that species.[4]
Diet
The long-spine porcupine fish is an omnivore that feeds on
Distribution
The long-spine porcupinefish has a circumtropical distribution, being found in the
:- In the Atlantic from 30°N to 23°S, as well as around South Africa.
- And In the western Indian Ocean from the southern Red Sea to Madagascar, Réunion and Mauritius.
- Also In the Galapagos Islands.[8]
Habitat
They are found over the muddy sea bottom, in estuaries, in lagoons or on coral and rocky reefs around the world in tropical and subtropical seas.[9]
Spawning
References
- ^ "Common Names List – Diodon holocanthus". FishBase. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- ^ ISBN 0-00-715986-2
- ^ "Black-blotched porcupinefish: Diodon liturosus Shaw, 1804". Australian Museum. Retrieved 2013-12-15.
- ^ Leis, J.M., 2001. Diodontidae. Porcupine fishes (burrfishes). p. 3958-3965. In K.E. Carpenter and V. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 6. Bony fishes part 4 (Labridae to Latimeriidae), estuarine crocodiles. FAO, Rome.
- ^ "Porcupinefishes". Australian museum. Retrieved 2013-12-15.
- ISBN 978-1-84286-118-9.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2007). "diodon holocanthus" in FishBase. 6 2007 version.
- ^ Kuiter, R.H. and T. Tonozuka, (2001). Pictorial guide to Indonesian reef fishes. Part 3. Jawfishes – Sunfishes, Opistognathidae – Molidae. Zoonetics, Australia. pp. 623–893.
External links
- http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127402
- http://fran.cornu.free.fr/affichage/affichage_nom.php?id_espece=1209
- Photos of Long-spine porcupinefish on Sealife Collection
- Media related to Diodon holocanthus at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Diodon holocanthus at Wikispecies