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Diodon hystrix Linnaeus 1758
Description
Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758.
Freckled Porcupinefish, Porcupinefish, Spotfin Porcupinefish, or Spotted Porcupinefish. To 91 cm (36 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002) and southeast of Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); Santa Barbara (34°24’N, 119°45’W), southern California (Personal communication: Santa Barbara Natural History Museum Fish Collection, Santa Barbara, California) to Chile, including Gulf of California and Islas Galápagos (Miller and Lea 1972). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight: 52-415), intertidal to 135 m (443 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Ralston et al. 1986).
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Diodontidae
- Genus
- Diodon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- hystrix
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Parin, N. V. (2003) An annotated catalogue of fish-like vertebrates and fishes of the seas of Russia and adjacent countries: Part 3. Orders Perciformes (excluding suborders Gobioidei, Zoarcoidei and Stichaeoidei) and Tetraodontiformes. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, S 1 - S 40.
- Arndt, E. & Fricke, R. (2019) Intertidal fishes of Mauritius with special reference to shallow tidepools. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7, e 36754. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / bdj. 7. e 36754
- Ralston, S., Gooding, R. M. & Ludwig, G. M. (1986) An ecological survey and comparisons of bottom fish resource assessments (submersible versus handline fishing) at Johnston Atoll. Fishery Bulletin, 84, 141 - 155.