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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 poison ...
The species is known from the Sea of Japan, East China Sea and Yellow Sea north to southern Sakhalin, at depths of 10–135 m (33–443 ft).It is a demersal species. . Spawning occurs in estuaries; young fish can tolerate a wide range of salinities and will remain in river mouths and lagoons, maturing for one year before migrating permanently to the ope
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.
The furtive bidding, a relic of a time when fish traders wore kimonos whose sleeves obscured their hands as they signaled their bids, is part of the insular world of Japanese pufferfish, or fugu ...
Fugu still remains a prized delicacy in Japan, despite its dangerous nature Image credits: yab While Japanese blowfish may be a delicious dish, every organ of it is poisonous — including its skin.
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 ]
1.4 Fish. 1.5 Reptiles. 1.6 ... Fugu (pufferfish) Ginbuna; ... a species of venomous snake that exists in all areas of Japan except certain islands including Okinawa ...
Pufferfish is regarded as a luxury in Japan and a meal featuring the potentially poisonous delicacy can easily cost up to 20,000 yen ($125) at high-end restaurants.