Animal Diversity Web

Diodon nicthemerus

Globe fish

(Also: Slender-spined porcupine fish)

Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
        
        Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
        
        Order Tetraodontiformes
        
        Family Diodontidae (Porcupinefishes (burrfishes))
        
        Genus Diodon
        
        Species Diodon nicthemerus (Globe fish)