Diodontidae
Longspined Porcupinefish
Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758
Diodon holocanthus is a circumtropical tropical porcupinefish with distinct long spines and spotted patterning.
Spotted Porcupinefish
Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758
Diodon hystrix, the spot-fin porcupinefish, is a circumglobal tropical and subtropical porcupinefish with defensive inflation and toxic spines.
Blackblotched Porcupinefish
Diodon liturosus Shaw, 1804
The Black-blotched porcupinefish (Diodon liturosus) is a medium-sized, venomous porcupinefish found in tropical and subtropical reefs.
Globefish
Diodon nicthemerus Cuvier, 1818
Diodon nicthemerus, the slender-spined porcupine fish, is a 40cm southern Australian porcupinefish with defensive yellow spines.
Spotfin Burrfish
Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Chilomycterus reticulatus is a patchily distributed inflatable fish found worldwide in warm temperate seas.
Striped Burrfish
Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792)
Chilomycterus schoepfii is a western Atlantic porcupinefish that can inflate its body, reaching a maximum length of about 10 inches.
Web Burrfish
Chilomycterus antillarum Jordan & Rutter, 1897
Chilomycterus antillarum is a Western Atlantic Diodontidae fish that grows up to 12 inches long.
Brown burrfish
Chilomycterus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Chilomycterus spinosus, the brown burrfish, is a southwestern Atlantic burrfish species in the Diodontidae family.
Bridled Burrfish
Chilomycterus antennatus (Cuvier, 1816)
Chilomycterus antennatus is a diodontid fish that inflates and uses spines for defense, found in shallow reefs and seagrass beds.
Deepwater Burrfish
Allomycterus pilatus Whitley, 1931
Allomycterus pilatus, the deepwater burrfish, is the only known member of its porcupinefish genus found in the South Pacific.
Spotbase Burrfish
Cyclichthys spilostylus (Leis & Randall, 1982)
Cyclichthys spilostylus, the spotbase burrfish, is a nocturnal solitary reef fish found across the Indo-Pacific and occasionally the eastern Mediterranean.
Shortspine Porcupinefish
Cyclichthys orbicularis (Bloch, 1785)
Cyclichthys orbicularis, the Birdbeak burrfish, is a medium-sized tropical Indo-West Pacific inflating burrfish active at night.
Threebar Porcupinefish
Dicotylichthys punctulatus Kaup, 1855
Dicotylichthys punctulatus is a solitary nocturnal fish found in Australian Pacific waters, feeding on hard-shelled invertebrates.
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