Porcupine Fish!Class – Osteichthyes

Order-TetraodontiformesFamily-Diodontidae

FUN FACTS!!!!!!!

Porcupine fish eat snails, crabs and sea urchins.

They have a toxic skin substance which are usually considered poisonous.

They are introverted creatures.

This psychedelic fish is not enlisted as endangered.

Info

It gets its name from the long spines all over it’s body

On some pacific islands the dried skins were used for war helmets

They are not normally caught for human consumption

The teeth are fused together into a single unit creating a strong, beak-like mouth

Info Cont.

Porcupine fish are nocturnal predators.

It puffs up by drawing in air or water and does this to protect itself from predators.

It inflates up to 2 or 3 times its normal size

They are about 10-12 inches long, although some species can grow up to 36 inches

They live in warm waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVta9ivMKgc

Doug The Porcupine Fish

http://

animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/porcupine-fish-info.htm

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/descript/porcupine/porcupine.htm

http://sea.sheddaquarium.org/sea/fact_sheets.asp?id=83

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