Porcupine Fish
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Channel: Kakan Sarkar · 2018 · Science & Technology
Long spine porcupine fish Pale in colour with large black blotches and smaller black spots becoming fewer in number with age. Has many long, two rooted depressible spines particularly on its head. The teeth of the two jaws are fused into a parrot like "beak". Adults may reach 50 CM in length. They are found over the muddy sea bottom, in estuaries, in lagoons on on coral & rocky reefs around the world in tropical and subtropical seas. It is aggressive in nature.
