order Tetraodontiformes


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Related to order Tetraodontiformes: Molidae, Pleuronectiformes
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Noun1.order Tetraodontiformes - boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers
order Plectognathi, Plectognathi
animal order - the order of animals
Acanthopterygii, superorder Acanthopterygii - teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays
plectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
Balistidae, family Balistidae - triggerfishes
family Monocanthidae, Monocanthidae - filefishes
family Ostraciidae, family Ostraciontidae, Ostraciidae - boxfishes
family Tetraodontidae, Tetraodontidae - puffers
Diodontidae, family Diodontidae - spiny puffers
family Molidae, Molidae - ocean sunfishes
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2005; Inoue & Nakaya 2006), like genera of unrelated pufferfishes (Breder & Clark 1947) and two genera of filefishes, Brachaluteres and Paraluteres (Clark & Gohar 1953), in the teleost order Tetraodontiformes.
Cephaloscyllium stevensi: a new species of swellshark (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from Papua New Guinea
Within the teleost order Tetraodontiformes, the bizarre ability to inflate the body is seen in all members of the families Tetraodontidae (puffers and sharp-nosed puffers) and Diodontidae (spiny puffers).
Presence of a small, rounded mouth opening is primitive for the living members of the order Tetraodontiformes and is secondarily lost only in some puffer taxa (e.
Evolution of pufferfish inflation behavior

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