Species: Cyclichthys spilostylus, Spotbase burrfish, Yellow-spotted burrfish

Cyclichthys spilostylus (Leis & Randall, 1982)

Yellow-spotted burrfish, Spotbase burrfish

Body relatively slendert, inflatable; head wide and blunt; eyes large;  nasal organ a short tube with 2 openings; teeth fused into a strong, parrot-like beak that lacks a front groove, large, opens widely at front; gill opening a vertical slit before pectoral base; pectorals large; fins without spines; no pelvic fins; dorsal fin high and round, 12-13 rays; anal 10-12 rays; pectoral angular, 20-22 rays; tail fin with 9 rays; body and head covered with numerous short (< eye), fixed, 3-4 rooted spines that are triangular and flattened in cross-section, and, in some cases reduced to plates under skin, no spines on tail base;  ~ 15 spines between snout and dorsal fin; pelagic juveniles with fleshy tentacle at base of each spine.