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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Diodon holocanthus

Balloonfish

WoRMS 127402ITIS 173392GBIF 5213361key worms:127402
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2026-08-05: itis_id 173392 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Diodon holocanthus
Balloonfish50 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

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

The long-spine porcupinefish, also known as the balloonfish, freckled porcupinefish, porcupine puffer, and porcupine pufferfish, is a species of marine fish in the family Diodontidae.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1990 and 1990, as larva.R

1
observations
1
records
1
sampling events
1990
years
1
datasets
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 1 obs · 1 events · 1990 · larva
    name used: Diodon holocanthus Balloonfish · code 422

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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:127402%22