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Definition of Diodontidae
1. Noun. Spiny puffers.
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Order Plectognathi, Order Tetraodontiformes, Plectognathi
Member holonyms: Spiny Puffer, Diodon, Genus Diodon, Chilomycterus, Genus Chilomycterus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diodontidae
Literary usage of Diodontidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of by Albert E. Sanders (1998)
"Two isolated tooth batteries are readily assigned to the Diodontidae. The better
preserved of these ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... by which some sea-fishes are known, which have the remarkable faculty of
Inflating their stomachs with air. They belong to the families Diodontidae and ..."
3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1882)
"... and the Diodontidae. The few representatives of these families or sections
which occur in temperate seas are chiefly summer wanderers, although a few ..."
4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"The porcupine fishes or Diodontidae are considered as poisonous. These fishes
together with the Tetraodontidae, or broad-nosed puffers, are unsightly in ..."
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