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A Japanese pinecone fish at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Utah

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A Japanese pine cone fish with a yellow body and dark markings making it look like a pinecone; algae encrusted rocks in the background
January 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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A pinecone fish at the Loveland Living Plant Aquarium, Draper, Utah

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A yellow and black pinecone fish swimming in an aquarium next to a bright yellow colored piece of coral.
February 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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A pinecone fish at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Utah

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A yellow and black pinecone fish with markings that resemble a pine cone or possibly a pineapple. It is in an aquarium and there are rocks with algae covering them behind it.
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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A pinecone fish swimming blissfully at Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, Draper, Utah

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A pinecone fish, yellow with black lines that make a pattern resembling a pinecone. It swims in a dark aquarium with green and purple pectinia coral in the foreground and rocks in the background.
May 22, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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Very cool! Is "porcupinefish" (mentioned in the text several times) a common name for Monocentridae that I wasn't familiar with before? I always knew them more as pinecone fishes or pineapple fishes, and instead associate "porcupinefish" with Diodontidae.
March 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM