Flavimaculosus Puffer

Torquigener flavimaculosus is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, capable of very rapid body inflation when threatened. Native to the Western Indian Ocean, it is also found in the Indo Pacific from the Persian Gulf to the Seychelles. Recorded first in the Mediterranean Sea in 1987, following a likely migration through the Suez Canal, it is now expanding westward.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

Poisonous. The note covers its whole family. Pufferfish; tetrodotoxin in liver, ovaries and skin Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Torquigener pleurogramma — poisonous
• Takifugu flavipterus — poisonous
• Amblyrhynchote honckenii — poisonous
• Torquigener squamicauda — poisonous
• Sphoeroides nephelus — considered poisonous

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Tetraodontiformes

Family

Tetraodontidae

Genus

Torquigener

Species

Torquigener flavimaculosus

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