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Spotfine porcupinefish
Diodon hystrix
Distribution: Bermuda to Brazil and in the western Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Housing: It is found between the surface and 100m in warm water (from 23 ° C) and trailers. It is found both in crevices that serve as water refuge in full. Its serene and quite characteristic displacement. Description: Also called "armed fish" or "porcupine boubou", the whole body is light gray, varying light brown. . All of the livery is dotted with black spots. few large patches of brown sprinkles here and there over the body. The belly is white. Big bulging eyes are very mobile Highlights over the head. Food: It has in each jaw teeth that allow it to crush rocks and shells. Feeds on sea urchins, crabs. |
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Taxonomic classification
| Phylum: | Chordata | Class: | Actinopterygii | Sub class: | Neopterygii | To print in "PDF" format |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes | Sub order: | Tetraodontoidei | Family: | Diodontidae | |
| Genious: | diodon | Species: | hystrix | Descriptor: | Linné, 1758 |  |