Chilomycterus reticulatus és una espècie de peix de la família dels diodòntids i de l'ordre dels tetraodontiformes.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 55 cm de longitud total.

Alimentació Menja invertebrats de closca dura.

Hàbitat És un peix marí, de clima subtropical i associat als esculls de corall que viu entre 20-100 m de fondària.Leis, J.M., 2001. Diodontidae. Porcupine fishes (burrfishes). p. 3958-3965. A: K.E. Carpenter i V. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 6. Bony fishes part 4 (Labridae to Latimeriidae). FAO, Roma.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba a l'Atlàntic oriental (des de Portugal fins a Namíbia, incloent-hi Madeira), l'Atlàntic occidental (Bermuda i les Índies Occidentals), l'oest de l'Índic (Reunió i Maurici),Fricke, R., 1999. Fishes of the Mascarene Islands (Réunion, Mauritius, Rodriguez): an annotated checklist, with descriptions of new species. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein, Theses Zoologicae, Vol. 31: 759 p. l'Índic oriental (IndonèsiaGloerfelt-Tarp, T. i P.J. Kailola, 1984. Trawled fishes of southern Indonesia and northwestern Australia. Australian Development Assistance Bureau, Austràlia, Directorate General of Fishes, Indonèsia i German Agency for Technical Cooperation, República Federal d'Alemanya. 407 p. i el nord-oest d'Austràlia)Allen, G.R. i R. Swainston, 1988. The marine fishes of north-western Australia: a field guide for anglers and divers. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 201 p. i el Pacífic oriental (Hawaii i des de Califòrnia fins a Xile).Allen, G.R. i D.R. Robertson, 1994. Fishes of the tropical eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 332 p.Afonso, P., F.M. Porteiro, R.S. Santos, J.P. Barreiros, J. Worms i P. Wirtz, 1999. Coastal marine fishes of São Tomé Island (Gulf of Guinea). Arquipélago 17(A):65-92.Allen, G.R. i M. Adrim, 2003. Coral reef fishes of Indonesia. Zool. Stud. 42(1):1-72.Bianchi, G., K.E. Carpenter, J.-P. Roux, F.J. Molloy, D. Boyer i H.J. Boyer, 1993. FAO species identification field guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of Namibia. FAO, Roma, Itàlia. 250 p.Chen, C.-H., 2004. Checklist of the fishes of Penghu. FRI Special Publication Núm. 4. 175 p.De la Cruz Agüero, J., M. Arellano Martínez, V.M. Cota Gómez i G. de la Cruz-Agüero, 1997. Catálogo de los peces marinos de Baja California Sur. IPN-CICIMAR, La Paz, Mèxic. P. 346.Edwards, A., 1990. Fish and fisheries of Saint Helena Island. Centre for Tropical Coastal Management Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Anglaterra.Garpe, K.C. i M.C. Öhman, 2003. Coral and fish distribution patterns in Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania: fish-habitat interactions. Hydrobiologia 498: 191-211.Grove, J.S. i R.J. Lavenberg, 1997. A list of the fishes of the Galapagos Islands. p. 1-17. A: The fishes of the Galapagos Islands (Grove, J.S. and R.J. Lavenberg). Stanford University Press.Heemstra, P.C., K. Hissmann, H. Fricke i M.J. Smale, 2006. Fishes of the deep demersal habitat at Ngazidja (Grand Comoro) Island, Western Indian Ocean. South African J. Sci. 102: 444-460.Johnson, J.W., 1999. Annotated checklist of the fishes of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2):709-762.Kuiter, R.H., 1992. Tropical reef-fishes of the western Pacific Indonesia and adjacent waters. Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Jakarta. 314 p.Letourneur, Y., P. Chabanet, P. Durville, M. Taquet, E. Teissier, M. Parmentier, J.-C. Quéro i K. Pothin, 2004. An updated checklist of the marine fish fauna of Reunion Island, south-western Indian Ocean. Cybium 28(3):199-216.Mundy, B.C., 2005. Checklist of the fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Zoology. Bishop Mus. Bull. Zool. (6):1-704.Myers, R.F., 1999. Micronesian reef fishes: a comprehensive guide to the coral reef fishes of Micronesia. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 330 p.Ohshimo, S., 2004. Spatial distribution and biomass of pelagic fish in the East China Sea in summer, based on acoustic surveys from 1997 to 2001. Fish. Sci. 70:389-400.Randall, J.E. i C. Anderson, 1993. Annotated checklist of the epipelagic and shore fishes of the Maldives Islands. Ichthyol. Bull. of the J.L.B. Smith Inst. of Ichthyol. 59:47.Randall, J.E. i K.K.P. Lim (eds.), 2000. A checklist of the fishes of the South China Sea. Raffles Bull. Zool. Suppl. (8):569-667.Randall, J.E., G.R. Allen i R.C. Steene, 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 506 p.Randall, J.E., H. Ida, K. Kato, R.L. Pyle i J.L. Earle, 1997. Annotated checklist of inshore fishes of the Ogasawara Islands. Nat. Sci. Mus. Monogr. (11):1-74.Randall, J.E., J.T. Williams, D.G. Smith, M. Kulbicki, G.M. Tham, P. Labrosse, M. Kronen, E. Clua i B.S. Mann, 2003. Checklist of the shore and epipelagic fishes of Tonga. Atoll Res. Bull. Núms. 497-508.Reiner, F., 1996. Catálogo dos peixes do Arquipélago de Cabo Verde. Publicações avulsas do IPIMAR Núm. 2. 339 p.Sanches, J.G., 1991. Catálogo dos principais peixes marinhos da República de Guiné-Bissau. Publicações avulsas do I.N.I.P. Núm. 16. 429 p.Sommer, C., W. Schneider i J.-M. Poutiers, 1996. FAO species identification field guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of Somalia. FAO, Roma. 376 p.Wirtz, P., R. Fricke i M.J. Biscoito, 2008. The coastal fishes of Madeira Island-new records and an annotated check-list. Zootaxa 1715: 1-26.

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