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Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus 1758
Authors/Creators
- 1. Kanchi Mamunivar Government Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Lawspet - 605008, Puducherry, India; Email: sofinithy @ gmail. com
- 2. Thiru Kolanjiappar Government Arts College, Virudhachalam - 606001, Tamil Nadu, India
Description
Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758 (Figure 2S)
Material examined: India: Puducherry, Pillaichavadi fish landing centre (12°0’31”, 79° 51’ 31” NE 4892), 08.xii. 2020, 2 ex., leg. Nithya Mary [MARC /ZSI/F- 8311].
Common Name: Balloon porcupine fish, Longspined porcupine fish. Habitat: Marine-Reef Associated. Diet Pattern: Benthic Invertebrates.
Distribution: India: Puducherry, Andaman (Rao, 2003), Tamil Nadu (Gopalakrishnan et al., 2012), Kerala (Baiju et al., 2016). Elsewhere: Western Atlantic: Canada, (Florida Scott and Scott, 1988), Western Indian Ocean: Southern Red Sea to Madagascar, Reunion and Mauritius (Letourneur et al., 2004), Pacific Ocean: Southern Japan South to Lord Howe Island and East to the Hawaiian and Easter islands (Myers, 1999).
Notes
Published as part of Mary, S. Nithya, Ravitchandirane, V. & Gunalan, B., 2021, Checklist of order Tetraodontiformes (Actinopterygii) from Puducherry Coasts, Southeast Coast of India with Nine New Records, pp. 393-404 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (3) on page 401, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i3/2021/155960, http://zenodo.org/record/13186261
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- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.13186265 (DOI)
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- Journal article: 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i3/2021/155960 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MARC
- Event date
- 2020-12-08
- Verbatim event date
- 2020-12-08
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Diodontidae
- Genus
- Diodon
- Species
- holocanthus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Mary, Ravitchandirane & Gunalan, 2021
References
- Rao, D. V. 2003. Guide to Reef Fishes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands; p. 1 - 555. (Published by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata).
- Gopalakrishnan, A., Divya P. R., Basheer, V. S., Raja Swaminathan, T., Kathirvelpandian, A., Bineesh, K. K., Rahul, G. K. and Jena, J. K. 2012. Macro flora and fauna of the Gulf of Mannar - A checklist. National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, U. P., India; 127 pp.
- Baiju, P. T., Prabhakaran, M. P., Benno Pereira, F. G. and Jayaprakas, V. 2016. Rocky reef-associated fish diversity of South Kerala Coast, India. J. Aqua. Bio. Fish., 4: 31 - 44.
- Florida Scott, W. B. and Scott, M. G. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Can. Bull. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 219: 731 pp.
- Letourneur, Y., Chabanet, P., Durville, P., Taquet, M., Teissier, E., Parmentier, M., Quero, J. - C. and Pothin, K. 2004. An updated checklist of the marine fish fauna of Reunion Island, south-western Indian Ocean. Cybium, 28 (3): 199 - 216.
- Myers, R. F. 1999. Micronesian reef fishes: A comprehensive guide to the coral reef fishes of Micronesia, 3 rd revised and expanded edition. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam; p. 330.