spiny puffer
Noun
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Puffers having rigid or erectile spines (synset 102658153)
is a type of: plectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spinessubtypes:
- diodon hystrix, porcupine fish, porcupinefish - spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters
- balloonfish, diodon holocanthus - similar to but smaller than porcupinefish
- burrfish - any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines
belongs to: diodontidae, family diodontidae - spiny puffers
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