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porcupine fish
Globefish Globe"fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

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- Preserved porcupine fish in a laboratory A dead porcupinefish washed up on a beach A dead porcupinefish (video) Diodon nicthemerus swimming List of fish families...
- ****. Porcupine fishes have scales modified into large external spines. By contrast, pufferfish have thinner, more hidden spines than porcupine fish, which...
- The slender-spined porcupine fish or globefish (Diodon nicthemerus) is a porcupinefish of the family Diodontidae, found in the waters of southern Australia...
- also known as the freckled porcupinefish, porcupine puffer, and porcupine pufferfish, is a species of marine fish in the family Diodontidae. The long-spine...
- North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), also known as the Canadian porcupine, is a large quill-covered rodent in the New World porcupine family. It...
- Fish locomotion is the various types of animal locomotion used by fish, prin****lly by swimming. This is achieved in different groups of fish by a variety...
- Department of Fish and Game, Canadian wildlife agencies, and local aboriginal peoples cooperatively manage the Porcupine herd. The Porcupine Caribou Management...
- Porcupine Bank is an area of the Irish shelf, on the fringes of the Atlantic Ocean approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of Ireland. The relatively...
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- California exhibit houses Cortez rainbow wr****e, Mexican lookdowns, porcupine fish, and others. Other areas of the gallery include the 211,000-US-gallon...