| |
| |
AllRefer.com - puffer (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia |
 | | The puffers and their allies, the boxfish, the porcupinefish, and the ocean sunfish or headfish, form an odd group (order Tetraodontiformes). |
| | The puffers, or swellfishes, named for their ability to inflate their bodies to three times normal size, are found all along the Atlantic coast, e.g., the northern puffer (Sphaeroides maculatus), and in the Pacific. |
| | Puffers and their allies are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Tetraodontiformes. |
| reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/puffer.html (294 words) |
|
