#plectognath_fish__plectognathfish__plectognath  tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
  supertype:  #spiny-finned_fish__acanthopterygian  a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
  member of:  #order_Plectognathi
  subtype:  #triggerfish  any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
     subtype:  #queen_triggerfish__queentriggerfish__Bessy_cerca__oldwench__oldwife__balistesvetula  tropical Atlantic fish
  subtype:  #filefish  narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
     subtype:  #leatherfish__leatherjacket  any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes
  subtype:  #boxfish__trunkfish  any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
     subtype:  #cowfish__Lactophrys_quadricornis  trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes
  subtype:  #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
  subtype:  #spiny_puffer__spinypuffer  puffers having rigid or erectile spines
     subtype:  #porcupinefish__porcupine_fish__porcupinefish__Diodon_hystrix  spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters
     subtype:  #balloonfish__Diodon_holocanthus  similar to but smaller than porcupinefish
     subtype:  #burrfish  any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines
  subtype:  #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
     subtype:  #sharptail_mola__sharptailmola__Mola_lanceolata  caudal fin has a central projection

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