The Striped Burrfish

 
The Striped Burrfish’s scientific name is Chilomycterus schoepi. Its habitat is bay grass beds in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean. The domain is Eukarya, the kingdom is Animalia, the phylum is Chordata, the class is Actinopterygii, the order is Tetraodontifomers, the family is Diodontidae, the genus is Chilomycterus, and the species is schoefi. The Striped Burrfish has stripes, black dots, and it has yellow spikes on its back. Some of their adaptations is that it blows up like a balloon so it is hard to eat. It has spikes to protect and to defend itself. Also, the Burrfish is a really slow swimmer with their small fins. I never knew that! Some of them can grow up to 25cm long but not all of them, since they are not a great swimmer they squirt water like a jet, and the juvenile/adults can be as long as 15cm! This fish doesn’t have much of predators because it has a really great defense but what their prey is some small fish, crabs, and smaller animals. Lots of animals are heterotrophic including the Striped Burrfish