Mason Nistad-Striped Burrfish

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Striped Burrfish

Chilomycterus schoepfi

You can find the striped burrfish in bay grass beds, but more specifically North Carolina to Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico. All organisms have a domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus and species. Its domain is Eukarya, its kingdom is Animalia, its phylum is Chordata, its class is Actinopterygii, its order is Tetraodontiformes, its family is Diodontidae, its genus is Chilomycterus and its species is schoepfi. The striped burrfish has bilateral symmetry, which means if you were to draw a line down the center of the organism each side would match up perfectly. The striped burrfish is an oval shape covered in many small spikes. A structural adaptation that the fish has is its small spikes around its body that protect it from other organisms, it also makes it painful to eat this fish. Another structural adaptation is its jaw. The striped burrfish has a strong jaw to chomp down on its prey. The last adaptation is behavioral and that is when the striped burrfish blows up. When they do that it scares other organisms and keep them away. A fun fact about this organism is that you actually might think about it as a puffer fish which is a super common name for this organism. The striped burrfish diet consist of crabs, shrimp, mussels. Humans are the ones who mostly eat the striped burrfish. The striped burrfish is a heterotrophic organism which means they get energy by eating other organisms. Lastly, the striped burrfish is an ectothermic organism, or commonly put to words as cold-blooded, or changing body temperature when the environment changes temperature.