Fishes of Hawai'i
Family Diodontidae - puffers
Diodon holocanthus - Spiny puffer -
'O'opu Okala  |
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| Description: light in body color with 6-7 large brown
spots, scales enlarged to spines; spines erect when body inflated; body covered with fewer
small spots |
| Size: to about 37 cm |
| Habitat: primarily nocturnal, hides under ledges during
the day |
| Diet: carnivore: mollusks, crabs, echinoids and hermit
crabs |
| Diodon hystrix - Porcupinefish -
Kökala
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| Description: brown in color, scales enlarged to spines;
spines erect when body inflated; body covered with small blue-black spots |
| Size: to 80 cm |
| Habitat: primarily nocturnal, found under ledges during
the day, can assemble over wrecks |
| Diet: carnivore: primarily gastropods, crabs, hermit
crabs and other invertebrates |
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