#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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