Spotfin burrfish
Amazing fact
The spotfin burrfish has fused teeth shaped like a parrot's beak.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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The spotfin burrfish has fused teeth shaped like a parrot's beak.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Spotfin burrfish
- Scientific name
- Chilomycterus reticulatus
- Japanese name
- イシガキフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Diodontidae
- Genus
- Chilomycterus
A member of the porcupinefish family that lives from many parts of Japan to tropical and temperate seas around the world.
How the Spotfin burrfish lives
When young, it lives in open water away from the seabed. It eats hard-shelled animals without backbones. In the sea near Kamogawa, it is found hiding in rock holes in summer.
Australian Museum鴨川シーワールドBasic data
- Size
- Total length: about 80 cm
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, tropical to temperate regions worldwide, and elsewhere
Where the Spotfin burrfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- イシガキフグ
- 简体中文
- 网纹短刺鲀
- 繁體中文
- 網紋短刺魨
- 한국어
- 강담복
- Español
- Pez Erizo Enano
- Français
- Diodon
- Deutsch
- Grauer Igelfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Porco-espinho-de-pintas
- Italiano
- Pesce istrice reticolato
- Русский
- Пятнистоплавниковый хиломикт
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — イシガキフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Spotfin Porcupinefish, Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)Checked: 2026-11-07
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute — Species: Chilomycterus reticulatus, Spotfin burrfishChecked: 2026-11-07
- 鴨川シーワールド — Vol.245～イシガキフグ～Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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