Lophodiodon

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | status = | status_system = | status_ref = | parent_authority = Fraser-Brunner, 1943 | taxon = Lophodiodon calori | authority = (Bianconi, 1854) }}

thumb | right '''''Lophodiodon calori''''', also known as the '''four-bar porcupinefish''',<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |editor-last=Froese |editor-first=Rainer |editor2-last=Pauly |editor2-first=Daniel |title=''Lophodiodon calori'' |url=https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Lophodiodon-calori |website=FishBase}}</ref> is a species of porcupinefish native to the Indo-Pacific where it is found in environments with a substrate composed of rubble and sand at depths of at most {{convert|100|m|ft}}, often above the continental shelf. Although adults of the species are benthic in nature, juveniles are pelagic. It feeds on hard-shelled invertebrates and is noted to be an uncommon species. The species grows to a length of {{convert|30|cm|in}} SL and is the only known member of its genus.<ref name="Matsuura2014">Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. ''Ichthyological Research'', 62 (1): 72-113.</ref>

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Category:Diodontidae Category:Monotypic marine fish genera Category:Taxa named by Alec Fraser-Brunner