| الاسم الشائع | Porcupinefish |
| اللغة | English |
| نوع | Vernacular |
| الأسم التجاري الرسمي | No |
| التصنيف | 2 - (Preferred common name (unique)) |
| الدولة | Micronesia |
| المنطقة المجاورة | |
| مرجع | Smith, A. and P. Dalzell, 1993 |
| مراحل الحياة | juveniles and adults |
| جنس | females and males |
| Core | non-fish animal |
| المعدل الأول | |
| المعدل الثاني | |
| ملاحظات | 'porcupine', i.e., spiny pig, from Latin 'porcus', i.e., pig and 'spinus, i.e., spine (p. 404, Ref. 11979); 'fish' from Germanic 'fiskaz' from same source as Latin 'piscis' from Indo-European word 'piskos' (p. 229 in Ref. 11979); 'porcupinefish', applied to the bloated, spiny appearance that this fish takes when threatened. |