Spiny Puffer (Diodon holocanthus)

Query: Blotched porcupinefish

Result: 6^th of 11

Subject:	Spiny Puffer (Diodon holocanthus)
Poster:	Phoby (phoby@hanafos.com)

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Spiny Puffer (Diodon holocanthus)

Balloonfish deflated and resting. Diodon holocanthus.

Image ID: nur00511, National Undersearch Research Program (NURP) Collection
Location: Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Florida Keys.
Photo Date: 1991 June
Photographer: R. Steneck
Credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP); University of Maine

Photo Source:
The NOAA Photo Library http://www.photolib.noaa.gov
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/

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Scientific Name: Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758 Common Names: English – Long-spine Porcupinefish, Spiny Porcupinefish, Balloon Porcupinefish, Bloched Porcupine Fish, Blotched Porcupine, Brown Porcupine Fish, Fine-spotted Porcupinefish, Freckled Porcupinefish, Hedgehog Fish, Long-spined Porcupine Fish, Ajargo, Longspine Porcupinefish, Porcupine, Porcupinefish, Spiny Balloonfish, Balloonfish, Spiny Puffer French – Porc-épic Ballon, Porc-épine Ballon, Souffleur à épines Spanish – Guanábana, Pejerizo, Pejerizo Balón, Pez Eriso, Pez Erizo Balón, Pez Erizo Mapache, Puercoespín Balón, Puercoespín Pintado, Tamborillo, Tamboril Negro Synonyms: Atopomycterus bocagei Steindachner, 1866 Diodon holacanthus Linnaeus, 1758 Diodon maculifer Kaup, 1855 Diodon multimaculatus Cuvier, 1818 Diodon novemaculatus Cuvier, 1818 Diodon paraholocanthus Kotthaus, 1979 Diodon pilosus Mitchill, 1815 Diodon quadrimaculatus Cuvier, 1818 Diodon sexmaculatus Cuvier, 1818

Blotched porcupinefish
6/11

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