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Joe Martin's False Eyed Pufferfish
Canthigaster solandri
Distribution: Red Sea, Indian and Pacific Ocean. Description: This fish has an orange-pink body covered many tasks bluish white surrounded by a black line. Radiating blue stripes depart from the eye to the mouth and other cover back to the caudal fin. The caudal fin is orange, and the base of the dorsal fin is decorated with a dark stain. Head, eye level is slightly flattened. Housing: It is found in shallow areas and in warm water (from 23 ° C). Also called "puffer fish snout" or "diodon peacock" as others, diodon fills with water to turn into a ball and frighten predators. Feeding:It feeds on coral, algae and tunicates. |
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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 | |
| Genius: | canthigaster | Species: | solandri | Descriptor: | Richardson, 1845 |  |