long-spine porcupinefish

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 About "long-spine porcupinefish"


📍Kingdom:- Animalia

📍Phylum:- Chordata

📍Class:- Actinopterygii

📍Order:- Tetraodontiformes

📍Family:- Diodontidae

📍Genus:- Diodon

📍Species:- D. holocanthus

📍Binomial name:-

Diodon holocanthus

👉The long-spine porcupinefish (Diodon holocanthus), also known as the freckled porcupinefish among other vernacular names, is a species of marine fish in the family Diodontidae.

👉The species' diet includes sea urchins and hard-shelled mollusks.

👉The Longspined porcupinefish has a 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 has many long, two-rooted depressible spines particularly on its head.

👉The teeth of the two jaws are fused into a parrot-like "beak".

👉Adults may reach 50 cm (20 in) in length.

👉The only other fish with which it might be confused is the black-blotched porcupinefish (Diodon liturosus), but it has much longer spines than that species.

👉They are found over the muddy sea bottom, in estuaries, in lagoons or on coral and rocky reefs around the world in tropical and subtropical seas.

👉It is used in Chinese medicine, and is captured at the surface with a hand net.

👉It is poisonous if not prepared correctly.

👉It is also found in the aquarium trade.

📷:- https://www.fishbase.se/FieldGuide/FieldGuideSummary.php?genusname=Diodon&speciesname=holocanthus&c_code=608&print=1

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