Porcupinefish Gallery

Porcupinefish, Diodon holocanthus, and pufferfish

Porcupinefish, Diodon holocanthus, and pufferfish or globefish, Tetraodon lineatus. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Black blotched pufferfish (Diodon liturosus) inflated with water at night as defensive behaviour

Black blotched pufferfish (Diodon liturosus) inflated with water at night as defensive behaviour, Sipadan Island, Borneo, Malaysia

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A Long-Spined Porcupinefish, Key Largo, Florida

A Long-Spined Porcupinefish (Diodon holocanthus). It's brilliant eyes reflect the light as it swims by fire coral in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Key Largo, Florida

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