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
YT 5.29 Family Nomeidae N 2.24 Cubiceps pauciradiatus N 2.24 Order Tetraodontiformes T 3.77 Family Balistidae T 3.77 Xantichthys mento T 3.77 Family Ostraciidae T 3.77 Lactoria diaphanum T 3.77 Family Tetraodontidae T 3.77 Lagocephalus lagocephalus T 3.77 Unidentified fishes MiF 3.77 Total prey weight (g) Area Taxon N W E Phylum Mollusca 16.35 2.54 9.48 Class Cephalopoda 16.35 2.54 9.48 Order Teuthoidea 16.35 2.54 9.48 Family Enoploteuthidae * Abraliopsis falco * Family Mastigoteuthidae 0.15 Mastigoteuthis spp.
Food habits and consumption rates of common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in the eastern Pacific Ocean
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).
Evolution of pufferfish inflation behavior

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