Lophodiodon

Lophodiodon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Diodontidae
Genus: Lophodiodon
Fraser-Brunner, 1943
Species:
L. calori
Binomial name
Lophodiodon calori
(Bianconi, 1854)

Lophodiodon calori, also known as the four-bar porcupinefish,[1] is a species of porcupinefish native to the Indo-Pacific where it is found in environments with a substrate composed of rubble and sand at depths of at most 100 metres (330 ft), often above the continental shelf. Although adults of the species are benthic in nature, juveniles are pelagic. It feeds on hard-shelled invertebrates and is noted to be an uncommon species. The species grows to a length of 30 centimetres (12 in) SL and is the only known member of its genus.[2]

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). "Lophodiodon calori". FishBase.
  2. ^ Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. Ichthyological Research, 62 (1): 72-113.