Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 226

Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Balloonfish, Freckled Porcupinefish, Longnose Porcupinefish, or Longspined Balloonfish. Length to 51.5 cm (20.3 in) TL ( Flores-Ortega et al. 2020). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); Bolinas, northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Easter Island ( Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Thomson et al. 2000), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1 m to at least 100 m (3–328 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Randall et al. 1990).