Diodon holacanthus Linnaeus, 1758
Golani, Daniel & Bogorodsky, Sergey V., 2010, 2463, Zootaxa 2463, pp. 1-135 : 86
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Diodon holacanthus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Diodon holacanthus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL
This species does not occur in the Red Sea and therefore Leis (1984) did not include the Red Sea in its distribution map. Tortonese's (1935 -36) record from Massawa was evidently a misidentification, most likely of Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 .
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