Animalia > Chordata > Tetraodontiformes > Diodontidae > Diodon > Diodon holocanthus

Diodon holocanthus (Ajargo; Balloon porcupinefish; Balloonfish; Baloon pufferfish; Baloonfish; Bloched porcupine fish; Blotched porcupine; Brown porcupine fish; Fine-spotted porcupinefish; Freckled porcupinefish; Hedgehog fish; Longspine porcupinefish; Long-spine porcupinefish; Long-spined porcupine fish; Porcupine; Porcupinefish; Spiny balloonfish; Spiny porcupinefish; Spiny puffer; Spiny pufferfish; Porcupine fish; Longspined porcupinefish; Burrfish; Ballonfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Diodon holocanthus, known commonly as the longspined porcupinefish or freckled porcupinefish among other vernacular names, is a species of marine fish in the family Diodontidae.
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Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Reef, Coastal

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Diodon hystrix (Ajargo)3
Pseudobalistes naufragium (Stone triggerfish)3
Sufflamen verres (brown triggerfish)3

Predators

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Clownfish and their Host Anemones ;; NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program
♦ 4Food-Web Structure and Dynamics of Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs: Panamá and Galápagos Islands, Peter W. Glynn, Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Reefs, eds. Tim R. McClanahan & George M. Branch, p. 185-208 (2008)
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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