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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 ...
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. 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 ...
Tetraodontidae. Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes. The family includes many familiar species variously called pufferfish, puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, blowers, blowies, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish, toadfish, toadies, toadle, honey toads, sugar toads, and sea squab. [1]
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]
The map puffer (Arothron mappa), also known as the map pufferfish, scribbled pufferfish, or Kesho-fugu, [2] is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. The map puffer is typically found in tropical and subtropical waters from the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific Ocean. [3] This fish contains tetrodotoxin, a potent and ...
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.
The grass puffer (Takifugu niphobles), or Kusa-fugu (Japanese: 草河豚), is a species of fish in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae). This common to abundant species is found in the northwest Pacific Ocean in China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam. [1] It is primarily found in coastal waters ...