Neogene Proto-Caribbean porcupinefishes (Diodontidae) [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Fossil Diodontidae in Tropical America consist mostly of isolated and fused beak-like jawbones, and tooth plate batteries. These durophagous fishes are powerful shell-crushing predators on shallow water invertebrate faunas from Neogene tropical carbonate
R T Lopes +2 more
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The Exploitation of Toxic Fish from the Terminal Pleistocene in Maritime Southeast Asia: A Case Study from the Mindoro Archaeological Sites, Philippines [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Representatives of the Diodontidae family (porcupinefish) are known to have been fished by prehistoric Indo-Pacific populations; however, the antiquity of the use of this family is thus far unknown.
Clara Boulanger +5 more
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Tetrodotoxin Poisoning in Mainland France and French Overseas Territories: A Review of Published and Unpublished Cases [PDF]
Toxins, 2022 Tetrodotoxin is one of the most potent neurotoxins in the aquatic world. This review of published and unpublished reports aims to describe the poisoning cases that have occurred in mainland France and overseas territories.
Pierrick Gouel +5 more
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Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe Yucatan Peninsula, southeast México, hosts a unique underwater karstic system of galleries connected by multiple sinkholes, locally called cenotes. This system is developed on a great Late Miocene to Early Pliocene carbonate platform belonging to the
Kleyton M Cantalice +5 more
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Difference in Uptake of Tetrodotoxin and Saxitoxins into Liver Tissue Slices among Pufferfish, Boxfish and Porcupinefish [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2018 Although pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae contain high levels of tetrodotoxin (TTX) mainly in the liver, some species of pufferfish, boxfish of the family Ostraciidae, and porcupinefish of the family Diodontidae do not.
Yuji Nagashima +6 more
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Chilomycterus reticulatus (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes: Diodontidae) in the southern Sicilian waters, central Mediterranean Sea [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica Et PiscatoriaA recently discovered fish specimen representing the family Diodontidae has been documented in the waters off Mazara del Vallo in southwest Sicily, Italy.
Danilo Scannella, Maria Corsini-Foka
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A new record of Diodon hystrix (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes: Diodontidae) in the Mediterranean Sea [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2018 The spot-fin porcupinefish, Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758, was first recorded in the Mediterranean by Torchio (1963), from the Gulf of Taranto, Italy. There have been no subsequent records, from this sea, ever since. In this paper, we report a new record
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An update to the list of coral reef fishes from Koh Tao, Gulf of Thailand [PDF]
Check List, 2014 Twenty-one species are reported for the first time from Koh Tao (Turtle Island) in the Gulf of Thailand. Information and photographs were obtained from local scuba divers in order to census rare (i.e., cryptic species or transient species only present ...
Patrick Scaps, Chad Scott
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018 In the present study, morphological variations in 14 species of two families, Tetraodontidae and Diodontidae, were examined for individuals collected from five different centres in Tamil Nadu in the southeastern coast of India.
K. Kaleshkumar +3 more
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Occurrence of Diodon eydouxii (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes: Diodontidae) in the Azores and comparison with Pacific specimens [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2015 A specimen of porcupine fish was collected by a fisherman at Terceira Island, Azores (north-eastern Atlantic), and identified as the pelagic porcupinefish, Diodon eydouxii Brisout de Barneville, 1846, a species recently recorded for the first time from ...
J.P. Barreiros, R. Fricke
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