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Diodon

WoRMS 126231ITIS 173390GBIF 2406531key worms:126231
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2026-08-05: itis_id 173390 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Emily Troyer · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Diodon hystrix

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Diodon
Photo · Dan Schofield · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Porcupinefishes or balloonfishes are any of the various species of the genus Diodon, the type genus of Diodontidae.W CalCOFI holds 7 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 1999, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

7
observations
7
records
2
sampling events
1987–1999
years
1
datasets
3
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 2 obs · 2 events · 1998–1999 · larva
    name used: Diodon · code 424

Under it · 3 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:126231%22