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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 ...
The Oklahoma State Penitentiary, nicknamed "Big Mac", [3] is a prison of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections located in McAlester, Oklahoma, on 1,556 acres (6.30 km 2). Opened in 1908 with 50 inmates in makeshift facilities, today the prison holds more than 750 male offenders, [1] the vast majority of which are maximum-security inmates.
The northern puffer, Sphoeroides spheroides, is a species in the family Tetraodontidae, or pufferfishes, found along the Atlantic coast of North America. [2] Unlike many other pufferfish species, the flesh of the northern puffer is not poisonous, although its viscera can contain poison, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and high concentrations of toxins have been ...
Criminal penalty. Death plus 2,285 years (October 5, 2000) [1] Details. Victims. Stephanie Neiman. The death of Clayton Derrell Lockett occurred on April 29, 2014, when he suffered a heart attack during an execution by lethal injection in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Lockett, aged 38, was convicted in 2000 of murder, rape, and kidnapping.
Deflated Valentinni's sharpnose puffer. 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. 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 ...
Tragulichthys. Porcupinefish are medium-to-large fish belonging to the family Diodontidae from the order Tetraodontiformes [2] which are also commonly called blowfish and, sometimes, balloonfish and globefish. The family includes about 18 species. They are sometimes collectively called pufferfish, [3] not to be confused with the morphologically ...
Amblyrhynchotes honckenii has a big head that tapers to a narrow tail. It grows up to 25 cm (9.8 in) long. The head is bluntly rounded with high set eyes and a small mouth. The eyes are deep blue or green in colour with a yellow or orange iris. The upper parts of the body range from black to dark brown to dark green in colour and is covered in ...