Long-spine porcupinefish

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phylum Chordata The long-spine porcupinefish also known as the spiny balloonfish is circumtropical in distribution, being found in the tropical zones of major seas and oceans. The long-spine porcupinefish is pale in colour with large black blotches and smaller black spots, these spots becoming fewer in number with age. It hasas many long, two-rooted depressible spines. Adults may reach 50 cm (20 in) in length.

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class Actinopterygii
order Tetraodontiformes
family Diodontidae
species Diodon holocanthusis