Balloonfish

  
(baloon3.jpg) (full size)
This is a Balloonfish about 12 inches.  Photo by Rod 23 Feb 2006.
Location , Pillars Reef, Key Largo in about 20 feet water.
Diodon holocanthus   

Features:
Description:
Notes: very similar to Bridled Burrfish;

More pictures below:

Audubon Field Guide; page 684; plate 413;
Reef Fish ID, 3rd edition; page 388-389; plates 389;
Size: 8- 14 inches; max 20 inches;
Depth: 6 -50 feet;

     
     (baloon1.jpg)                                (baloon2.jpg)

Photos directly above from Pillars Reef, Key Largo 13 March 2006.   


Rod Bigelow
Box 13  Chazy Lake
Dannemora, N.Y. 12929
< rodbigelow@netzero.net > 

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