#order_Plectognathi__Plectognathi__order_Tetraodontiformes  boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers
  supertype:  #animal_order  the order of animals
  member of:  #superorder_Acanthopterygii
  member:  #plectognath_fish__plectognathfish__plectognath  tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
  member:  #family_Balistidae__Balistidae  triggerfishes
     member:  #triggerfish  any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
     member:  #genus_Balistes__Balistes  type genus of the Balistidae
        member:  #queen_triggerfish__queentriggerfish__Bessy_cerca__oldwench__oldwife__balistesvetula  tropical Atlantic fish
     member:  #filefish  narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
  member:  #family_Monocanthidae__Monocanthidae  filefishes
     member:  #genus_Monocanthus__Monocanthus  type genus of the Monocanthidae
        member:  #leatherfish__leatherjacket  any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes
  member:  #family_Ostraciidae__Ostraciidae__family_Ostraciontidae  boxfishes
     member:  #boxfish__trunkfish  any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
     member:  #genus_Lactophrys__Lactophrys  a genus of Ostraciidae
        member:  #cowfish__Lactophrys_quadricornis  trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes
  member:  #family_Tetraodontidae__Tetraodontidae  puffers
     member:  #puffer__blowfish__globefish  any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers
  member:  #family_Diodontidae__Diodontidae  spiny puffers
     member:  #spiny_puffer__spinypuffer  puffers having rigid or erectile spines
     member:  #genus_Diodon__Diodon  type genus of the Diodontidae
        member:  #porcupinefish__porcupine_fish__porcupinefish__Diodon_hystrix  spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters
        member:  #balloonfish__Diodon_holocanthus  similar to but smaller than porcupinefish
     member:  #genus_Chilomycterus__Chilomycterus  burrfishes
        member:  #burrfish  any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines
  member:  #family_Molidae__Molidae  ocean sunfishes
     member:  #genus_Mola  type genus of the Molidae
        member:  #ocean_sunfish__oceansunfish__sunfish__headfish  among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters

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