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Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus 1758

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Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758.

Balloonfish, Freckled Porcupinefish, Longnose Porcupinefish, or Longspined Balloonfish. Length to 51.5 cm (20.3 in) TL (Flores-Ortega et al. 2020). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); Bolinas, northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Easter Island (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Thomson et al. 2000), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1 m to at least 100 m (3–328 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Randall et al. 1990).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF70FF5498EAFBCCFF223534

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF70FF5498EAFBCCFF223534 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191883198 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF70FF5498EAFBCCFF223534.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Diodontidae
Genus
Diodon
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tetraodontiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
holocanthus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Flores-Ortega, J. R., Godinez-Dominguez, E & Gonzalez-Sanson, G. (2020) Trophic interactions between the 11 most abundant demersal species on the Pacific coast of central Mexico. Ciencias Marinas, 46, 101 - 117. https: // doi. org / 10.7773 / cm. v 46 i 2.3056
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
  • Randall, J., Allen, G. R. & Steene, R. C. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.