Animalia > Chordata > Tetraodontiformes > Diodontidae > Diodon

Diodon (porcupinefishes)

Synonyms: Euchilomycterus; Paradiodon; Trichocyclus; Trichodiodon

Wikipedia Abstract

Porcupinefishes or balloonfishes, are any of the various species of the genus Diodon, the type genus of Diodontidae.
View Wikipedia Record: Diodon

Species

Diodon circumflexus
Diodon conicus
Diodon connewarrensis
Diodon dussumieri
Diodon echinus
Diodon erinaceus
Diodon eydouxii (Pelagic porcupinefish)
Diodon formosus
Diodon globulas
Diodon holocanthus (Ajargo) (Attributes)
Diodon hystrix (Ajargo)
Diodon intermedius
Diodon kleinii
Diodon kugleri
Diodon liturosus (Black blotched porcupinefish)
Diodon maculatus
Diodon muricatum
Diodon nicthemerus (Globe fish)
Diodon plumier
Diodon raninus
Diodon scillae
Diodon spec
Diodon tenuispinus
Diodon vetus

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0