Striped Burrfish

The Striped Burrfish (Chilomycterus schoepfi). The Striped Burrfish is small, yellow and has black stripes. The Striped Burrfish can expand its body to keep away predators which is a functional adaptation. It also had formidable spines which is a structural adaptation and it has beak like jaws which is a structural adaptation.  The Striped Burrfish lives in seabeds of bays and coastal lagoons.  It can also live in estuaries.  The Striped Burrfish doesn’t have many predators because of its spiked shell.  The Striped Burrfish’s prey are barnacles and hermit crabs.  The Striped Burrfish has bilateral symmetry.  The Striped Burrfish also is a heterotroph and exotherm.

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:chordata

Class:chondrichthyes

Order:rajiformes

Family: diodontidae

Genus:chilomycterus

Species:schoepfi

    

An interesting fact about the Striped Burrfish is Burrfish are not very good swimmers so they shoot water out of their gills to move.