Identification?

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Identification?

Post by Woland »

Been thinking about turning Marine for some time now.
Browsing the net I found a picture of this magnificent Puffer.
Seems to be some kind of Porcupine?
Clues?
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it has some characteristics of a burfish but thats as far as it goes I have never seen something like that before. Buy first, ask Questions later. :P :D
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Yep, like all burrfish he gets fairly large...
http://chunkypuff.net/speciesinfo.php?c ... antennatus

chunkypuff is not the definitive reference but that will hopefully put you on the trail to complete ID
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Post by Woland »

Ahhhhhh...
So it is not a puffer at all? Hmmm...

Here is another picture of the same fish...

Well, gonna look around for clues.
Thanx!
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Tis a puffer... "Burrfish" and "porcupine fish" are generic terms referring to a group of species which share similar traits. Similar to how we talk about a "Target" group.
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bred wrote:Tis a puffer... "Burrfish" and "porcupine fish" are generic terms referring to a group of species which share similar traits. Similar to how we talk about a "Target" group.
agreed.
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bred wrote:Tis a puffer... "Burrfish" and "porcupine fish" are generic terms referring to a group of species which share similar traits. Similar to how we talk about a "Target" group.
Hot Damn! You beat me to the edit/button! :oops:
A quick search made me realize my ignorance...

Well, no saving face now... :roll:
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From the angle of the second pic it looks more like some type of burrfish but I do not know what type.
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Woland wrote:
bred wrote:Tis a puffer... "Burrfish" and "porcupine fish" are generic terms referring to a group of species which share similar traits. Similar to how we talk about a "Target" group.
Hot Damn! You beat me to the edit/button! :oops:
A quick search made me realize my ignorance...

Well, no saving face now... :roll:
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He is a beautiful male Chilomycterus schoepfi (Burrfish)..


Here you will see mine baby Chilomycterus schoepfi
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Looks like those horned toads I used to see in TX. :lol:
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Post by Woland »

TAN wrote:He is a beautiful male Chilomycterus schoepfi (Burrfish)..


Here you will see mine baby Chilomycterus schoepfi
A beauty!
I am intensly envious...
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Post by mandycat »

Aka 'Spiny Boxfish'. They are very hard to get to eat. I had one for quite a while, the only food that he really ate well for a long time were fiddler crabs. They get skinny really fast. (the spiny box, that is) They need to eat all the time. Awsome fish, byt a little tricky.
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http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/species ... antennatus
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Post by UCLA Puffer »

It has the same spines but its coloration is really different than the C. antennatus. Hmm.
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