Definition of Diodontidae

1. Noun. Spiny puffers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Diodontidae

Dindymene
Dinesen
Dingle
Dinka
Dino Paul Crocetti
Dinocerata
Dinoflagellata
Dinornis giganteus
Dinornithidae
Dinornithiformes
Diocletian
Dioctophyma
Dioctophyma renale
Diodon holocanthus
Diodon hystrix
Diodontidae (current term)
Diodora apertura
Diogenean
Diogenes
Diogenes cup
Diomedea exulans
Diomedea nigripes
Diomedeidae
Diomedes
Dion
Dionaea muscipula
Dione
Dionean
Dionysia
Dionysiac

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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