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Black blotched porcupinefish
Diodon liturosus
Distribution: Bermuda to Brazil and in the western Atlantic, Indian Ocean. Housing: It is found between the surface and 100m in warm water (from 23 ° C). Or also called "armed fish" "porcupine short spines" The puffer fish is filled with water to turn into a ball and cringe its quills. Above all, do not leave the water because then air it can not spit and die swells. Description: The whole body is light yellow. A brown band from the base and eye drops vertically down the body. Other tasks, oblong shapes are scattered over the body. 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: | liturosus | Descriptor: | Shaw, 1804 |  |