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THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE

A branch of the living world.

110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.

These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.

Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.

Family: Diodontidae · Clear filter

15 records · page 1 of 1
SpeciesClassificationSource status
Allomycterus pilatus Whitley, 1931DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
bridled burrfishChilomycterus antennatus (Cuvier, 1816)DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
web burrfishChilomycterus antillarum Jordan & Rutter, 1897DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Chilomycterus mauretanicus (Le Danois, 1954)DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
spotfin burrfishChilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
striped burrfishChilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792)DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Chilomycterus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Cyclichthys hardenbergi (de Beaufort, 1939)DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
birdbeak burrfishCyclichthys orbicularis (Bloch, 1785)DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Cyclichthys spilostylus (Leis & Randall, 1982)DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Dicotylichthys punctulatus Kaup, 1855DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
balloonfishDiodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
porcupinefishDiodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
four-bar porcupinefishLophodiodon calori (Bianconi, 1854)DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
longspine burrfishTragulichthys jaculiferus (Cuvier, 1818)DiodontidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
15 records · page 1 of 1

Source and selection

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n

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First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.