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Spotted porcupinefish
Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0

Spotted porcupinefish

Diodon hystrix

Also called Puercoespín

Grows to
91 cm (3 ft)
Group
Fish
Family
Diodontidae

Where to see it

Known from Bay Islands, Belize, Bonaire, Curaçao, Egyptian Red Sea, Galápagos, Gili Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii, Koh Tao and Koh Samui, Komodo, Maldives, Mexican Caribbean, Pacific Costa Rica, Palau, Philippines, Phuket and the Similans and Raja Ampat.

Source: GBIF.

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