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Long-spine porcupinefish

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Leis, J.M., 2001. Diodontidae. Porcupine fishes (burrfishes). p. 3958-3965. In K.E. Carpenter and V. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 6. Bony fishes part 4 (Labridae to Latimeriidae), estuarine
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particularly on its head. The teeth of the two jaws are fused into a parrot-like "beak". Adults may reach 50 cm (20 in) in length. The only other fish with which it might be confused is the
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during its active phase at night. They use their beak combined with plates on the roof of their mouths to crush their prey such as mollusks and sea urchins that would otherwise be indigestible.
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The long-spine porcupinefish is pale in color with large black blotches and smaller black spots; these spots becoming fewer in number with age. It has many long, two-rooted depressible
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until they are at least 7 cm (3 in) long. Young and sub-adult fish sometimes occur in groups.
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The long-spine porcupinefish has a circumtropical distribution, being found in the
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or on coral and rocky reefs around the world in tropical and subtropical seas.
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They are found over the muddy sea bottom, in estuaries, in
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The long-spine porcupine fish is an omnivore that feeds on
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in pairs or in groups of males with a single female; the
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Diodon holocanthus

Audubon Aquarium
Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Tetraodontiformes
Diodontidae
Diodon
Binomial name
Linnaeus

species
fish
family
Diodontidae


spines
black-blotched porcupinefish
mollusks
sea urchins
hermit crabs
snails

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