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Diodontidae
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Porcupinefishes are medium-to-large fish belonging to the family Diodontidae from the order Tetraodontiformes which are also commonly called blowfishes and, sometimes, balloonfishes and globefishes. The family includes about 18 species. They are sometimes collectively called pufferfishes, not to be confused with the morphologically similar and closely related Tetraodontidae, which are more commonly given this name.
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Diodontidae is a family of fish within the order Tetraodontiformes, class Teleostei, and phylum Chordata. The taxon was described by Billberg in 1833 and is currently accepted. Commonly known as balloonfishes, these organisms inhabit marine and brackish environments.
Records for this family are held by several institutions, including SDNHM, USNM, UA, YPM, and UF. Specimens have been documented in the United States, Barbuda, and Panama. The family has 150639 occurrences recorded in the GBIF database and 2069 records in iDigBio, which includes 3 media files.
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Species
Balloonfishes
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderTetraodontiformes
- FamilyDiodontidae
La famille des Diodontidae (du grec ancien, di = deux et odous = dent) regroupe des espèces de poissons ayant la capacité de gonfler. Une autre de leurs caractéristiques est d'avoir des piquants, ce qui les distingue des Tetraodontidae qui eux n'en ont pas. Actuellement, une vingtaine d'espèces sont incluses dans cette famille. Dans le langage courant, on utilise souvent le mot Diodon pour parler d'un membre de la famille Diodontidae sans qu'il soit réellement dans le genre Diodon. Ils sont aussi appelés poissons porc-épic. Sommaire 1 Description 2 Biologie 3 Utilisation humaine 4 Taxinomie 5 Liste des genres et des espèces 6 Fossiles 7 Bibliographie 8 Références taxinomiques 9 Références Description Ce Diodon pêché par erreur s'est gonflé sous l'effet du stress. Les membres de la famille des Diodontidae sont des poissons de taille moyenne, communément entre 20 et 50 cm. Ils ont la capacité de gonfler quand ils se sentent menacés, en érigeant les épines qui couvrent leur corps. Leur corps est couvert d'épines qui se trouvent sous la peau. Il en existe deux types. Les premières, plus petites, sont ancrées par trois racines et sont maintenues dressées, tandis que les plus longues n'o
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,069
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Diodontidae
- Collections
- SDNHM, USNM, UA, YPM, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, Barbuda, Panama
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Tetraodontoidei
- Image
- Pindsvinefisk Diodon holocanthus.jpg
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- Commons category
- Diodontidae
- taxon name
- Diodontidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Diodontidae
- taxon common name
- piggsvinfiskfamilien
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
- Extant genera
- Fossil genera
- Characteristics
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Porcupinefishes are medium-to-large fish belonging to the family Diodontidae from the order Tetraodontiformes which are also commonly called blowfishes and, sometimes, balloonfishes and globefishes. The family includes about 18 species. They are sometimes collectively called pufferfishes, not to be confused with the morphologically similar and closely related Tetraodontidae, which are more commonly given this name.
They are found in shallow, temperate, and tropical seas worldwide. A few species are found much further out from shore, wherein large schools of thousands of individuals can occur.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diodontidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.