Striped Burrfish
By: Hastings Witt

Chilomycterus schoepfi

    The striped burrfish, also known as the Chilomycterus schoepfi, are mostly solitary bottom-dwellers,but can be found in areas near bay grass beds, and estuaries. Their domain is eukaryote, their kingdom is animalia. Their phylum is chordata, and their class is osteichthyes. Their order is tetraodontiformes, and their family is diodontidae. Their genus is Chilomycterus and the species is schoepfi. They have bilateral symmetry which means that they can be divided into two parts and the two parts would be mirror images of each other. This organism is yellowish greenish and has short sharp spikes, stripes and a sharp beak. Some adaptations of this organism are that it can inflate itself when scared, this is behavioral because it is an action that this organism performs. Also this organism’s spikes will scratch predators if they attack it, this is structural because it naturally had spikes. It also has a sharp beak to hunt, this is also structural. One interesting fact about this organism is that is gains speed by shooting water out of its gills to propel it forward. Its prey are barnacles and hermit crabs, its predators are humans, because its spikes make it hard for any other animals to eat it. This organism is heterotrophic because it eats other heterotrophs or producers. It is also ectothermic.