Porcupine
Diodon holocanthus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Diodontidae
- Genus
- Diodon
Where to Find
Found in 85 diving areas across 51 countries and 10 regions.
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 50 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 5 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 2 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 170 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 9 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 3 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 6 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 10 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 10 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 3 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 29 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 24 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 3 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 7 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 22 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 3 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 2 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 4 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 1 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 9 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 29 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 20 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 13 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 15 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 17 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 4 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 11 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 10 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 1 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 2 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 25 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 27 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 9 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 3 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 3 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 7 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 1 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 42 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 42 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 9 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 6 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 9 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 5 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 50 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 6 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 5 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 8 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 90 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 12 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 6 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 1 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 3 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 10 records
- Malpelo Island, Colombia - 37 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 54 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 86 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 12 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 4 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 7 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 5 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 4 records
- Perhentian Islands, Malaysia - 2 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 1 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 7 records