WoRMS taxon details
Lophodiodon calori (Bianconi, 1854)
219974 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219974)
accepted
Species
Diodon calori Bianconi, 1854 · unaccepted
Lophodiodon nigropunctatus Smith, 1957 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Diodon calori Bianconi, 1854) Bianconi, G. G. (1854). [Specimina zoologica mosambicana, Fasciculus VIII: Pisces novi Mozambicani.]. <em>Rendiconto delle Sessioni dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto dei Bologna 1853-1854.</em> : 68-69. [details]
Description Continental shelves to 100 m (Ref. 9680). Presumably feeds on hard-shelled invertebrates (Ref. 9680). Sometimes trawled but...
Description Continental shelves to 100 m (Ref. 9680). Presumably feeds on hard-shelled invertebrates (Ref. 9680). Sometimes trawled but not usually marketed (Ref. 9680). Not a common species (Ref. 9680). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Lophodiodon calori (Bianconi, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219974 on 2025-07-11
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
(of Lophodiodon nigropunctatus Smith, 1957) Smith, J. L. B. (1957). Four interesting new fishes from South Africa. <em>South African Journal of Science.</em> v. 53 (no. 8): 219-222. [details]
original description (of Diodon calori Bianconi, 1854) Bianconi, G. G. (1854). [Specimina zoologica mosambicana, Fasciculus VIII: Pisces novi Mozambicani.]. <em>Rendiconto delle Sessioni dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto dei Bologna 1853-1854.</em> : 68-69. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Diodon calori Bianconi, 1854) Bianconi, G. G. (1854). [Specimina zoologica mosambicana, Fasciculus VIII: Pisces novi Mozambicani.]. <em>Rendiconto delle Sessioni dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto dei Bologna 1853-1854.</em> : 68-69. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Continental shelves to 100 m (Ref. 9680). Presumably feeds on hard-shelled invertebrates (Ref. 9680). Sometimes trawled but not usually marketed (Ref. 9680). Not a common species (Ref. 9680). [details]Remark Date Eschmeyer, pers. comm. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | four-bar porcupinefish | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Diodon calori Bianconi, 1854)
To FishBase (from synonym Diodon calori Bianconi, 1854)
To FishBase (from synonym Lophodiodon nigropunctatus Smith, 1957)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Lophodiodon calori, Oman, by Field, R.)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Lophodiodon calori FIN028075 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Diodon calori Bianconi, 1854)
To FishBase (from synonym Diodon calori Bianconi, 1854)
To FishBase (from synonym Lophodiodon nigropunctatus Smith, 1957)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Lophodiodon calori, Oman, by Field, R.)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Lophodiodon calori FIN028075 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
