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Porcupine Fish
These puffer fish primarily inhabit coral reefs and other warm shallow waters. They can occasionally be found in temperate waters, when swept there by ocean currents.
The balloonfish, Diodon holocanthus (Linnaeus, 1758), aka balloon porcupinefish, blotched porcupine fish, blotched porcupine, brown porcupine fish, fine-spotted porcupinefish, freckled porcupinefish, freckled porcupinefish, hedgehog fish, ...
fishes produce pelagic young (meaning they live in the water column for a period of time before settling on reefs), and the length of the stage is highly variable, from only a week in some damselfishes to greater than 64 weeks in some porcupine ...
Puffer fish are not very fast swimmers, and eat a variety of small crustaceans, small fish and whatever else they can catch. Owners of puffer fish and porcupine fish in tropical aquariums report that their pets can be quite greedy, ...
Porcupinefish can also inflate their bodies with water or air, but these fishes are also armed with well-developed spines from head to tail. These spines, which can be up to 5 cm (2 in.) long, make the porcupine fish even more difficult to attack.
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 See also: Coral, Porcupine, Shark, Shell, Squid
  
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