Diodon

Porcupinefishes
Temporal range:
Early Eocene to Present
Diodon holocanthus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Diodontidae
Genus: Diodon
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Diodon hystrix
Linnaeus, 1758
This article is about the fish. For the clipboard software, see Diodon (software).

Porcupinefishes or balloonfishes, are any of the various species of the genus Diodon, the type genus of Diodontidae.

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