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Main identification features
- dark blue; fins spotted
- dorsal and anal finsangular
- snout spines less than body spines
- tail base: 1-2 spines
Slender body; large eye; teeth fused into beak with no separation of beak-halves; gill opening a vertical slit before pectoral; dorsal and anal fins on rear of body; no pelvic fins; body and head covered with erectile spines; >20 spines between snout and dorsal fin, none on snout; 2 or more small, fixed spines on top of tail base; spines on snout shorter than those an body; body spines long, slender; short, fixed spine immediately above gill opening; nostril with two-holed tentacle; dorsal 16-18 rays; anal 16-18 rays; pectoral 19-22 rays; dorsal and anal fins of adult curved and pointed.
Medium to dark blue above, shading to white below; top and sides with black or dark blue
Size: 30 cm.
Habitat: oceanic, epipelagic.
Depth: 0-10 m.
Circumtropical; the central Gulf of California to Colombia and the oceanic islands.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 10 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: bony fishes; zooplankton; Pelagic crustacea; pelagic fish larvae.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=29; Southern limit=-2; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=31; Longitudinal range=37.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore; Planktivore.
FishBase Habitat: Pelagic.
Global Endemism: Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans); East Pacific + Atlantic (East +/or West); Transisthmian (East Pacific + Atlantic of Central America); East Pacific + all Atlantic (East+West); All Pacific (West + Central + East); TEP non-endemic; "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific); All species.
Habitat: Water column.
Inshore Offshore: Offshore; Offshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 30 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s); Continent; Continent + Island (s); Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Mid Water; Near Surface; Surface; Water column only;
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References |
- Brisout de Barneville,., 1846., Note sur les Diodoniens., Rev. Zool., 1846:136-143.
- Grove , J.S. and Lavenberg, R. J., 1997., The fishes of the Galápagos islands., Stanford University Press:863 pp.
- Leis, J. M., 1978., Systematics and zoogeography of the porcupinefishes (Diodon, Diodontidae, Tetraodontiformes), with comments on egg and larval development., United States Fish Wildlife Service, Fisheries Bulletin, 76:535-567.
- Lopez , M. I. and Bussing, W. A., 1982., Lista provisional de los peces marinos de la Costa Rica., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 30(1):5-26.
- Van der Heiden , A. M. and Findley, L. T., 1988., Lista de los peces marinos del sur de Sinaloa, México., Anales del Centro de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia de la Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico, 15:209-224.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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