Diodon hystrix Linnaeus 1758

• 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 hystrix; Milton; Pacific; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5609979; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609979

Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758. Freckled Porcupinefish, Porcupinefish, Spotfin Porcupinefish, or Spotted Porcupinefish. To 91 cm (36 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002) and southeast of Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); Santa Barbara (34°24’N, 119°45’W), southern California (Personal communication: Santa Barbara Natural History Museum Fish Collection, Santa Barbara, California) to Chile, including Gulf of California and Islas Galápagos (Miller and Lea 1972). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight: 52-415), intertidal to 135 m (443 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Ralston et al. 1986). 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