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Bony fish

Long-spined Tripodfish

Pseudotriacanthus strigilifer

Also known as: Blotched Triplespine, Blotched Tripodfish, Golden Triplespine, Golden Tripodfish, Longspine Tripodfish, Long-spined Triplespine, Triplespine Fish, Tripodfish

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2024
Juvenile
@perigor2000 · Kata Beach, Thailand · April 20101 / 1
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Overview

Found singly, over mud and sand flats of coastal waters, also entering estuaries.

Triplespines or Tripodfish are in the same family as pufferfish and ocean sunfish, but they also have a trigger spine like triggerfish and filefish which is usually much longer and two more spines in place of ventral fins.

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How to identify

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Behaviour
solitary

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-Pacific
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Found singly, over mud and sand flats of coastal waters, also entering estuaries.

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Juvenile photos 1

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderTetraodontiformes
    5. familyTriacanthidae
    6. genusPseudotriacanthus
    7. speciesPseudotriacanthus strigilifer (Cantor, 1849)

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    More in the family

    Tetraodontiformes