This article is about the genus of pufferfish. For the Japanese dish, see fugu.
"Japanese pufferfish" redirects here. For the genus of pufferfish that makes elaborate circular nests, see Torquigener.
Takifugu
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Tetraodontiformes
Family:
Tetraodontidae
Subfamily:
Tetraodontinae
Genus:
Takifugu T. Abe, 1949
Type species
Takifugu ocellatus
Linnaeus, 1758
Species
25, See species table below
Synonyms
Gastrophysus Müller, 1843[1] Fugu T. Abe, 1952[2]
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, invertebrates and sometimes crustaceans.
The fish contains lethal amounts of the poison tetrodotoxin in the internal organs, especially the liver and the ovaries, but also in the skin and the testes. The poison paralyzes the muscles while the victim stays fully conscious, and eventually dies from asphyxiation. There is currently no antidote, and the standard medical approach is to try to support the respiratory and circulatory system until the effect of the poison wears off.
^Kottelat, Maurice (2013). The fishes of the inland waters of Southeast Asia: A catalogue and core bibliography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Vol. 27. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. p. 476.
^Matsuura, Keiichi (1990). "The pufferfish genus Fugu Abe, 1952, a junior subjective synonym of Takifugu Abe, 1949". Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. A. 16: 15–20.
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