Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus 1758

Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758. Balloonfish, Freckled Porcupinefish, Longnose Porcupinefish, or Longspined Balloonfish. Length to 51.5 cm (20.3 in) TL (Flores-Ortega et al. 2020). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); Bolinas, northern California (Personal co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Tetraodontiformes
Diodontidae
Diodon
Diodon holocanthus
Milton
Ortega
Pacific
Randall
Scripps
Yukon
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5609977
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609977
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Summary:Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758. Balloonfish, Freckled Porcupinefish, Longnose Porcupinefish, or Longspined Balloonfish. Length to 51.5 cm (20.3 in) TL (Flores-Ortega et al. 2020). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); Bolinas, northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Easter Island (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Thomson et al. 2000), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1 m to at least 100 m (3–328 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Randall et al. 1990). Published as part of 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, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 226, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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