burrfish

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Noun1.burrfish - any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines
spiny puffer - puffers having rigid or erectile spines
Chilomycterus, genus Chilomycterus - burrfishes
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Fish such as the porcupinefishes, burrfishes and puffers also take marine mollusks, as does the rare Loggerhead Turtle.
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Burrfishes Sn Totals (to lowest taxon) 63 33 Table 3.
A preliminary study of the Marine Biota at Navassa Island, Caribbean Sea
All are covered with spines that are either rigid as in the burrfishes or erectile as in the porcupinefishes and balloon fish.
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