Tetraodontiformes - Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontiformes are an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Plectognathi. Sometimes these are classified as a suborder of the Perciformes. Various bizarre forms are included here: Balistidae (triggerfishes) Monacanthidae (filefishes) Ostraciidae (boxfishes) Tetraodontidae (pufferfishes) Diodontidae (porcupinefishes) Molidae (marine sunfish).
Yellowmargin triggerfish - Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Balistidae Genus: Pseudobalistes Species: flavomarginatus Binomial name Pseudobalistes flavomarginatus Pseudobalistes flavomarginatus Range Tropical Indo-Pacific Habitat Coastal waters, 2-50 metres (7-165 feet) Size 60 centimetres (23 inches).
Actinopterygii - allies) Order Batrachoidiformes (toadfishes) Order Lophiiformes (goosefishes, etc) Order Gadiformes (cods & allies) Order Ophidiiformes (cusk eels, etc) Acanthopterygii Order Mugiliformes (mullets & allies) Order Atheriniformes (silversides & allies) Order Beloniformes (needlefishes, etc) Order Cyprinodontiformes (killifishes, etc) Order Stephanoberyciformes (pricklefishes, whalefishes, etc) Order Beryciformes (alfonsinos, etc) Order Zeiformes (dories, etc) Order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks, pipefishes & allies) Order Synbranchiformes (swamp-eels, etc) Order Tetraodontiformes (triggerfishes & allies) Order Pleuronectiformes (flatfishes & allies) Order Scorpaeniformes (scorpionfishes & allies) Order Perciformes (perches & many allies).
Black triggerfish - Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Balistidae Genus: Melichthys Species: niger Binomial name Melichthys niger Melichthys niger Range Circumtropical Habitat Open waters, shallows, exposed reefs, 5-35 metres (16-115 feet) Size 25 centimetres (10 inches).
Blue or rippled triggerfish - Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Balistidae Genus: Pseudobalistes Species: fucus Binomial name Pseudobalistes fucus Pseudobalistes fucus Range Tropical Indo-Pacific, Red Sea Habitat Coastal waters, shallows in the open, 3-50 metres (10-165 feet) Size 55 centimetres (22 inches).
Clown triggerfish - Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Balistidae Genus: Balistoides Species: conspicillum Binomial name Balistoides conspicillum Balistoides conspicillum Range Tropical Indo-Pacific, Red Sea Habitat Coastal waters, 5-60 metres (16-200 feet) Size 35 centimetres (14 inches).
Triggerfish - Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Balistidae Genera Balistapus Balistes Balistoides Canthidermis Melichthys Odonus Pseudobalistes Rhinecanthus Sufflamen Xanthichthys Balistidae - The Triggerfishes Brightly coloured fishes of the family Balistidae of warm coastal waters. Have a roundish body with an anterior dorsal fin that can lock and unlock. It is due to this behaviour that they are named 'Triggerfish'. Balistapus Balistapus undulatus Orangestriped triggerfish Balistes Balistoides Balistoides viridecens Mustache triggerfish Balistoides conspicillum Clown triggerfish Canthidermis Melichthys Melichthys niger Black triggerfish Odonus Odonus niger Redtooth triggerfish Pseudobalistes Pseudobalistes flavomarginatus Yellowmargin triggerfish Pseudobalistes fucus Blue or rippled triggerfish Rhinecanthus Rhinecanthus aculeatus Picassofish or Humuhumu Rhinecanthus assasi Rhinecanthus lunula Rhinecanthus cinereus Rhinecanthus Rectangulus Sufflamen Xanthichthys.
Redtooth triggerfish - Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Balistidae Genus: Odonus Species: niger Binomial name Odonus niger Odonus niger Range Tropical Indo-Pacific, Red Sea Habitat Open waters and seaward reef, 2-35 metres (7-115 feet) Size 35 centimetres (14 inches).
Perciform - or under the belly. Scales are usually ctenoid in form, though sometimes they are cycloid or otherwise modified. Various other, more technical characters define the group. Classification is controversial. As traditionally defined the Perciformes are almost certainly paraphyletic. Other orders that should possibly be included as suborders are the Scorpaeniformes, Tetraodontiformes, and Pleuronectiformes. Of the presently recognized suborders several may be paraphyletic as well..
Zombie - person to present a pharmacological case for zombies in two books - The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985) and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie (1988). Davis travelled to Haiti in 1982 and as a result of his investigations claimed that zombies could be made by the ingestion of two special powders. The first, coupe poudre, induced a 'death-like' state, the key ingredient of which was the pufferfish (Tetraodontiformes) toxin tetrodotoxin (TTX). The second powder of dissociative hallucinogens held the person in a will-less zombie state. There was considerable scepticism to Davis's claims, he was widely accused of fraud and there has been no final statement as to the veracity of his findings. Others claim zombies are sufferers of various psychiatric disorders such as catatonic schizophrenia whose symptoms.
Porcupinefish - Porcupinefish are fish of the family Diodontidae (order Tetraodontiformes). (Full-size image) They have the ability to blow themselves up by swallowing water or air when threatened. They are covered by long spines that stick out sharply when the fish is inflated. The porcupinefish is closely related to the pufferfish, which does not have spines..
Pufferfish - balloonfish or pufferfish is a fish of the family Tetraodontidae (order Tetraodontiformes) named after its ability to inflate itself to several times its normal size by swallowing water or air when threatened. The same adaptation is found in the related porcupinefish, which also have spines. Pufferfish accumulate the poison Tetrodotoxin from a symbiotic bacterium, which makes them highly poisonous even to humans. Despite this they are prized as a delicacy in Japan, where fugu (河豚 or フグ) is carefully prepared by removing the poisonous skin and organs and served as sushi or sashimi, or cooked in broth. In recent years, most fugu is produced from farmed pufferfish, where the bacterium is rare, and so the resulting fish are generally not poisonous. Apparently due to some unknown selection pressure, intronic and extragenic.
Ocean sunfish - Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Molidae Genus: Mola Species: mola Binomial nomenclature Mola mola The ocean sunfish Mola mola is a bizarre pelagic fish, the largest bony fish in the world, with specimens having been sighted up to 11-feet-long and one estimated as weighing in at 3000 pounds. They are commonly mistaken for sharks, as they often swim close to the surface and have a dorsal fin that sticks up out of the water and appears similar. However, ocean sunfish feed on zooplankton (along with small fishes and other marine life), and are commonly friendly towards people, such as divers that venture into their habitat. They are found in warm and temperate zones of all oceans, including the Eastern Pacific and the eastern and western Atlantic. Mola molas are.
Orangestriped triggerfish - Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Balistidae Genus: Balistapus Species: undulatus Binomial name Balistapus undulatus Balistapus undulatus Range Tropical Indo-Pacific, Red Sea Habitat Coastal waters, 2-50 metres (7 - 165 feet) Size 30 centimetres (12 inches).
Mustache triggerfish - Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Balistidae Genus: Balistoides Species: viridescens Binomial name Balistoides viridescens Balistoides viridescens Range Tropical Indo-Pacific, Red Sea Habitat Coastal waters, 5-35 metres (16-115 feet) Size 75 centimetres (29 inches).
