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Diodon hystrix Linnaeus 1758
Description
Diodon hystrix Linnaeus 1758 —Porcupinefish (Fig. 177)
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from St. Mathias by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 79), based on ZMH 17774. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 16 Aug. 2009, and at 5 m depth by Dean Tully on 20 Sept. 2012. NTUM material.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2, 4.—General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate oceans. Found on coral and rocky reefs, 0–50 m depth. Marine.
Notes
Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on pages 335-336, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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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. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Duncker, G. & Mohr, E. (1929) Die Fische der Sudsee-Expedition der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Stiftung 1908 - 1909. 3. Teil. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg, 44, 57 - 84.