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Tetraodontidae, porcupinefishes can inflate themselves. Once inflated, a porcupinefish's erected spines stand perpendicular to the skin, whereupon they then pose a major difficulty to their predators: a large porcupinefish that is fully inflated can choke a
349:(1845), Darwin was told by a Doctor Allen of Forres, UK that the Diodon actually had been found "floating alive and distended, in the stomach of the shark" and had been known to chew its way out of shark bodies after being swallowed, causing the death of its attacker.
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291:beak-like jaws, used to crush their hard-shelled
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658:. London: John Murray. p. 14.
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675:Ichthyological Research
373:Fossil dental plate of
276:Distinguishing features
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586:-aged Piemonte, Italy.
483:Spot-fin porcupinefish
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426:Pelagic porcupinefish
420:Brisout de Barneville
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1057:Marine fish genera
563:Diodon tenuispinus
528:Diodon nicthemerus
443:Diodon holocanthus
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280:Fish of the genus
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270:Diodontidae
202:Diodontidae
1036:Categories
591:References
336:Like true
313:burrfishes
309:swelltoads
266:type genus
110:to Present
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358:ciguatera
158:Kingdom:
152:Eukaryota
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