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  2. List of marine fishes of Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    Deep-sea carnivorous fish. Caught with line. Good sporting fish. Piscivorous 50–80 cm. Prized commercial fish. Deep-water longtail red snapper (Sacré chien grande queue) Elongated caudal fin whose upper lobe is longer. Red on the dorsal side, whitish below. Found on rocky bottoms. Carnivorous (small fish and crustaceans) 70 cm. Good ...

  3. Wildlife of Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    These fish are proving to be a nuisance and are disturbing the ecosystem of Mauritian rivers. [12] All the above fish have been introduced. Indigenous fish are few, and one of them is the goby, locally known as bichiques, of which two species are found, Awaous commersoni and Awaous pallidus, which locally are known as bichiques. They are ...

  4. Excoecaria agallocha - Wikipedia

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    Growth habit of Excoecaria agallocha Excoecaria agallocha in flower. Excoecaria agallocha, a mangrove species, belongs to the genus Excoecaria of the family Euphorbiaceae.The species has many common names, including blind-your-eye mangrove, [1] blinding tree, [citation needed] buta buta tree, [2] milky mangrove, [3] poisonfish tree, and river poison tree. [4]

  5. 'River Monsters': The biggest catch of Jeremy's career - AOL

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    JEREMY: "This is the biggest fish of my South American fishing career. A river monster as deadly as any beast of folklore." Like always, Jeremy tossed the fish back in the water.

  6. Poisonous fish - Wikipedia

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    Species of puffer fish (the family Tetraodontidae) are the most poisonous in the world, and the second most poisonous vertebrate after the golden dart frog.The active substance, tetrodotoxin, found in the internal organs and sometimes also the skin, paralyzes the diaphragm muscles of human victims, who can die from suffocation.

  7. Fish toxins - Wikipedia

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    This is the most extensively used fish poison among the Gondi of India. Typically in summer, the leaves of this plant are dried and powdered. About 1 kg of powder is mixed into water about 5 ft (1.5 m) deep in ponds, usually in the summer. Fish are stunned by the poison and rise to the surface, where they are easily collected by hand.

  8. Deadly pufferfish hospitalizes family of 11 - AOL

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    A deadly pufferfish hospitalized an entire family who unintentionally consumed the poisonous fish for dinner. According to Brazil's Globo News, eleven members of the Souza family ate a pufferfish ...

  9. Giant mottled eel - Wikipedia

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    This species and all anguillid eels are catadromous, migrating sometimes long distances out into the open ocean to spawning over deep water. [2] A spawning area of this species is known to be west of the Mariana Islands in an area of the North Equatorial Current in the western North Pacific, but other spawning areas are thought to exist in the ...