Striped Burrfish

THE PINECONE OF THE ESTUARY

Diet

• Diverse diet, likes to eat fiddler crabs, shrimp, small fish, squid, mussels, and crustaceans

Agility 

• Shaped like a box making it difficult to move through the water

• Clumsy and slow because of their small fins and awkward body shape

Defense Mechanisms

• Inflate their body to look larger and are covered in tough spikes

• Large black spots on their body that look like eyes to deter predators and have stripes to look like Spartina grass 

Superpower

• Crush prey with their strong teeth plates