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Porcupinefishes
Diodontidae
Porcupinefish are fish belonging to the family Diodontidae (order Tetraodontiformes), also commonly called blowfish and, sometimes, balloonfish and globefish. They are sometimes collectively called pufferfish, not to be confused with the morphologically similar and closely related Tetraodontidae, which are more commonly given this name.
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.