WoRMS taxon details
Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 127403
AphiaID: 127403
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Diodontidae (Family) > Diodon (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Diodon Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Diodon Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Diodon armillatus Whitley, 1933 Diodon brachiatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Diodon histrix Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Diodon hystrax Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Diodon hystris Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Diodon hystrix hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 Diodon nudifrons Jenkins, 1903 Diodon punctatus Cuvier, 1818 Diodon spinosissimus Cuvier, 1818 Diodon totara Curtiss, 1938 Paradiodon hystrix (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] additional source: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [details] additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Diodon hystrix holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Diodon hystrix hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Chagos [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Taeniacanthus balistae (Claus, 1864) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Hatschekia elliptica Pillai, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Hatschekia iridescens Wilson C.B., 1913 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Naobranchia wilsoni Nigrelli, 1933 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Peniculisa wilsoni Radhakrishnan & Nair, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Tucca impressus Krøyer, 1837 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (289 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (58 nucleotides; 10 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Occurs in lagoon and seaward reefs to at least 50 m. Juveniles pelagic to about 20 cm . A solitary and nocturnal fish that feeds on hard shelled invertebrates like sea urchin, gastropods, and hermit crabs (Ref. 9680). Generally common (Ref. 9710). [details] Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Massachusetts (USA), and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127403 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127403 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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