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Long-spine porcupine puffers

Diodon holocanthus

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Field Notes

Description:

Pale in colour with large black blotches and smaller black spots, these spots becoming fewer in number with age. Has many long, two-rooted depressible spines. Adults may reach 50 cm (20 in) in length

Habitat:

Found over the muddy sea bottom, or in lagoons or seaward and reefs

Notes:

Tioman Island, Pahang Malaysia

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Beautiful! This is the fish with the most expressive eyes I've ever seen :)

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PublishedAugust 23, 2011

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