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Diodontidae
balloonfish
Diodon holocanthus
Fish Reaching Fifty Centimeters in Japanese Waters
- Tropical
- Globally widespread
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia
- North America
- South America
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Deep-bodied
Mediumballoonfish is known from Circumtropical in distribution as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Diodontidae
- Genus
- Diodon
- Maximum length
- 50 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Circumtropical in distribution. Western Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ), Florida, USA and the Bahamas to Brazil (Ref. 7251 ). Eastern Atlantic: 30°N to 23°S (Ref. 6951 ); also South Africa (Ref. 4423 ). Western Indian Ocean: southern Red Sea to Madagascar, Reunion and Mauritius (Ref. 53568 ). Pacific Ocean: southern Japan south to Lord Howe Island and east to the Hawaiian and Easter islands (Ref. 37816 ). Also from southern California, USA to Colombia (Ref. 11482 ) and the Galapagos Islands (Ref. 5227 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
