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Pez globo (Arothron hispidus), Anilao, Filipinas, 2023-08-24, DD 53
2023-08-24
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About this work
White-spotted puffer (Arothron hispidus), Anilao, Philippines. The white-spotted puffer fish can reach 50 centimetres (20 in) length. Its distribution extends through the Indo-Pacific area, Red Sea included, to the eastern Pacific Ocean at depths of 3–35 metres (9.8–114.8 ft). Its habitat types include reefs, lagoons, estuaries, and tidepools. Its diet includes calcareous or coralline algae, molluscs, tunicates, sponges, corals, zoanthids, crabs, polychaetes, starfish, urchins, krill, and silversides. The adult is nocturnal and solitary. It is territorial, becoming somewhat aggressive.
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