Porcupinefish
Porcupinefish are fish of the family Diodontidae, (order Tetraodontiformes), also commonly called blowfish (and, sometimes, "balloonfish" or "globefish").
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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The long-spine porcupinefish has dark patches on its sides and back.
It has long spines that protrude from all over its body, except for the fins and face.
When not threatened, this fish's spines will lie flat against its body.
Fun Facts ...
A Blackblotched Porcupinefish at Flores
A Blackfin Hogfish at the Great Barrier Reef
A Black-lined Sleeper Goby and Red-barred Sandperch
A Black-lined Sleeper Goby at the Osprey Reef
A Blackmargined Damsel from the Solomon Islands ...
black-blotched porcupinefish (Diodon liturosus)
blackbelt hogfish (Bodianus mesothorax)
blackcap basslet (Gramma melacara)
blacklip butterfly (Chaetodon kleinii)
blackpatch trigger (Rhinecanthus verrucosus)
blue angel (Centropyge sp.) ...
The puffers and their allies, the boxfish, the porcupinefish, and the ocean sunfish or headfish, form an odd group (order Tetraodontiformes).
There are three families of pufferfish, Tridontidae (a single three-toothed species), Tetradontidae (smooth and sharpnose puffers with four teeth), and Diodontidae (the spiny pufferfish, burrfishes, and porcupinefishes with two fused teeth).
TETRAODONTIFORMES
Includes spikefishes, triplespines, triggerfishes, filefishes, boxfishes, threetooth puffers, puffers, porcupinefishes, burrfishes, molas
SCRAWLED FILEFISH
PUFFERFISH - PORCUPINEFISH ...
Burrfish are covered with short, heavy spines that are always erect-unlike their cousins the porcupinefish, which have movable spines.
They move by undulating or waving their pectoral fins and tails rather than by bending the entire body.
 See also: Porcupine, Coral, Wrasse, Shark, Shell
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