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 |