Animals Of Coastal Landscapes The Spiny Porcupine Fish

Animals in coastal landscapes. The Spiny Porcupine fish lives in the Coral Reef at the depth of one-two hundred metres. The length that it grows is 20 to 50 cm. The Spiny Porcupine fish gets pregnant for 9 months just like humans and its hatching period is 4 days. The food that it eats is Sea Urchins, Hermit Crabs and Snails. The life span of the animal is 5 – 7 years. When the fish feels threatened, it will expand its stomach with air or water. This fish can also be called Spiny Puffers and Balloon fish. The fish ranges from Florida to Brazil, around South Africa to the Indian Ocean, it is also found throughout the west and Oceania. The Spiny Porcupine fish looks spotty, variable with highly individual markings concentrated on the upper parts. The eyes are large and help the fish to spot predators quickly. They are not strong predators and therefore they must inflate to escape. There mouthparts have 2 large teeth, one upper and on lower and they stick out like a beak.( 2016 world book page 15, 16, 17, 18) The Seahorse lives in areas of seagrass, mangroves forests and coral reefs. Their length is 1.6- 25 cm and they are pregnant from 4 months to 1 year. The seahorse lies from 100 eggs to 200 eggs at a time. The seahorse lives for 1-5 years. Their diet is tiny shrimp and other invertebrates. The Seahorse looks has a snout to suck tiny shrimp and other prey in its mouth in an instant, they have a pouch for after mating which the female inserts the eggs into the male,