Photo: Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 90 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, reef slopes
The spot-fin porcupinefish is covered with large spines that stand up when it inflates. It feeds on sea urchins and crabs that it crushes.
Did you know?
In Tahitian: totara.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Diodon.
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