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Fugu. The fugu (河豚; 鰒; フグ) in Japanese, bogeo (복어; -魚) or bok (복) in Korean, and hétún (河豚; 河魨) in Standard Modern Chinese [a] is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish. Fugu possesses a potentially fatal ...
Takifugu rubripes, commonly known as the Japanese puffer, Tiger puffer, or torafugu (Japanese: 虎河豚), is a pufferfish in the genus Takifugu.It is distinguished by a very small genome that has been fully sequenced because of its use as a model species and is in widespread use as a reference in genomics.
Takifugu. Takifugu, also known by the Japanese name fugu (河豚, lit. "river pig"), is a genus of pufferfish with 25 species, most of which are native to salt and brackish waters of the northwest Pacific, but a few species are found in freshwater in Asia or more widely in the Indo-Pacific region. Their diet consists mostly of algae, molluscs ...
Carp, minnows and loaches. Abbottina rivularis (Basilewsky, 1855) – Chinese false gudgeon (버들매치) Abbottina springeri (Banarescu et Nalbant, 1973) (왜매치) Acanthorhodeus chankaensis (Dybowski, 1872) – Khanka spiny bitterling (가시납지리) Acanthorhodeus macropterus Bleeker, 1871 (큰납지리) Acheilognathus hondae (Jordan et ...
Takifugu poecilonotus. (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) Takifugu poecilonotus, the finepatterned puffer, or Komon-fugu (Japanese: 小紋河豚), is a species of pufferfish, one of 25 in the genus Takifugu. It is found in the northwest Pacific Ocean at shallow depths up to 20m. [1] It contains tetrodotoxin like other members of the genus Takifugu. [2]
Takifugu obscurus [7] or the obscure pufferfish is a species of euryhaline, [8] anadromous pufferfish first described by T. Abe in 1949. [2] [3] It has been categorized by the IUCN as a least-concern species globally since 2014; [9] in South Korea, it is however classified as an endangered species due to overfishing of its endemic populations. [10]
Takifugu vermicularis. Takifugu vermicularis, the purple puffer, is a species of pufferfish native to the northwest Pacific Ocean where it occurs in the waters around China, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea and Japan. This species is of commercial importance though the flesh is toxic. This species grows to a length of 30 centimetres (12 in) SL.
Takifugu chinensis, the Chinese puffer, is a species of fish in the family Tetraodontidae (pufferfish) that is found in coastal waters of China, Japan and Korea. [1] This critically endangered pufferfish has drastically declined because of overfishing and habitat loss, but it is possibly also threatened by the widespread release/escape of aquacultured Takifugu rubripes within its range.