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Diodon

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A genus of spinose plectognath fishes having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water and hence are called globefishes swellfishes etc Called also porcupine fishes and sea hedgehogs

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