Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Balloonfish, Freckled Porcupinefish, Longnose Porcupinefish, or Longspined Balloonfish. Length to 51.5 cm (20.3 in) TL (Flores-Ortega et al. 2020). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); Bolinas, northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Easter Island (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Thomson et al. 2000), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1 m to at least 100 m (3–328 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Randall et al. 1990).