Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 226

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609979

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FF70-FF54-98EA-FAC8FB73362B

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scientific name

Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758
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Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL .

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).

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