Experience a 3-hour showcase of more than 16,000 animals including sharks, birds, frogs, turtles, dolphins, and jellies.

Enjoy a 45-minute introduction of America's Aquatic Treasures featuring more than 1,500 animals including alligators, sharks, and turtles.

Experience a 3-hour showcase of more than 16,000 animals including sharks, birds, frogs, turtles, dolphins, and jellies.

Enjoy a 45-minute introduction of America's Aquatic Treasures featuring more than 1,500 animals including alligators, sharks, and turtles.

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Porcupinefish

The porcupinefish is a large pufferfish that ranges in color from olive to brown with a pale underside and dark spots over the entire body.

Diet

Sea urchins, gastropods, crustaceans

A porcupinefish can grow to a maximum length of 3 feet.

Circumtropical

The porcupinefish is not believed to be threatened.

Shark and other large fish would prey on porcupinefish, but their defenses ensure they are rarely a meal.