Long-spine porcupinefish

Long-spine porcupinefish
Diodon holocanthus at the Audubon Aquarium
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Diodontidae
Genus: Diodon
Species:
D. holocanthus
Binomial name
Diodon holocanthus
Linnaeus, 1758
Distribution of the long-spine porcupinefish

The long-spine porcupinefish (Diodon holocanthus), also known as the balloonfish, freckled porcupinefish, porcupine puffer, and porcupine pufferfish, is a species of marine fish in the family Diodontidae.