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Longspined porcupine fish
Diodon holocanthus
Distribution: Bermuda Brazil and in the western Atlantic, also in the Indian Ocean. Description: The body of 30 to 50 cm is yellow coated black spots. The lips are puffy like almost all puffers, the eyes are bulging with a very large mobility. Rows of spines on the back pockets. Housing: It is found between the surface and 100m in warm water (from 23 ° C). Also called "armed fish" or "small porcupine", the puffer fish is filled with water to turn into a ball and cringe its quills. Above all, do not leavethe water because then air it can not spit and die swells. Rather peaceful behavior, except with conspecifics and other porcupine fish. Food: It has in each jaw teeth that allow it to crush rocks and shells. |
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Taxonomic classification
| Phylum: | Vertebrates | Class: | Osteichthyes | Sub class: | Actinopterygii | To print in "PDF" format |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes | Sub order: | Tetraodontoidei | Family: | Diodontidae | |
| Genious: | diodon | Species: | holocantus | Descriptor: | Linnaeus, 1758 |  |