One day I was amused by watching the habits of the Diodon antennatus, which was caught swimming near the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

It was a species of Diodon that poisoned the Dutch sailors on the Postilion as it rounded the Cape of Good Hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

Marcel added two species of puffers to his poison—Diodon hystrix and Sphoeroides testudineus—both known to contain tetrodotoxin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

This account is offered by the physician who arrived at the bodies not ten minutes after they had eaten the fish a species of Diodon, as it turned out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

Marcel had recognized two varieties of fish—the fou-fou, which was Diodon hystrix, and the crapaud de mer, or sea toad, which was Sphoeroides testudineus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

Cuvier doubts whether the Diodon in this position is able to swim; but not only can it thus move forward in a straight line, but it can turn round to either side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Worm in the Apple: German Traitors and Other Influences That Pushed the World Into War (in German (1952) and English (1997)), by Friedrich Lenz, trans. by Victor Diodon (HTML with commentary at wintersonnenwende. com).    From Wordnik.com.  [August 4th, 2007] Reference

Diodon, floating alive and distended, in the stomach of the shark; and that on several occasions he has known it eat its way, not only through the coats of the stomach, but through the sides of the monster, which has thus been killed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Diodon — Pelagic Confervæ and Infusoria — Causes of discoloured Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

There is a fish, the Diodon antennatus, that gets the better of the shark in a curious manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Shadows in the South Seas] Reference

Despite all these defences, if the shark is fool enough to heed no warning and to eat Diodon, the latter puffs himself up and eats his way clean through the shark to liberty, leaving the shark riddled and leaky, and, indeed, dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Shadows in the South Seas] Reference

Diodon has both lungs and gills; some amphibious quadrupeds have the foramen ovale open; perhaps it may be kept open in dogs by frequent immersion so as to render them amphibious; pearl divers; distinctions of amphibious animals; lamprey, leech; remora; whale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference

Diodon has both lungs and gills; some amphibious quadrupeds have the foramen ovale open; perhaps it may be kept open in dogs by frequent immersion so as to render them amphibious; pearl divers; distinctions of amphibious animals; lamprey; leech; remora; whale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contents] Reference

I have heard from Dr. Allan of Forres, that he has frequently found a Diodon, floating alive and distended, in the stomach of the shark; and that on several occasions he has known it eat its way, not only through the coats of the stomach, but through the sides of the monster, which has thus been killed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter I] Reference

Cuvier on Diodon, 14.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Shark killed by Diodon, 14.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Diodon Maculatus (Distended and Contracted).    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

This Diodon possessed several means of defence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

( '' Diodon holocanthus '').    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Diodon 76.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

Diodon hystrix, 125.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

Bahia — Burnished Rocks — Habits of a Diodon —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Diodon, Lizard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canto I] Reference

Diodon, habits of, 13.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Allan, Dr., on Diodon, 14.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Diodon, Lizard, Beaver, Lamprey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference