Silver-cheeked toadfish
The silver-cheeked toadfish is a puffer fish with a silver stripe along each side. It lives in warm seas, and it is extremely poisonous to eat. It matters because it has spread into the Mediterranean, where people may catch it by mistake.1

Engeri y'okukitegeera
- Grey or brown back with darker spots1
- White belly1
- A characteristic silver band along each side1
- Long, slim body, more elongated than the oceanic pufferfish1
- Symmetrical tail fin1
Kitera okutabulwa ne: It is very similar to the oceanic pufferfish. The silver-cheeked toadfish is more elongated and has a symmetrical tail fin.1
Amaanyi g'obutwa
Kya kabi bwokka singa ekintu kikirya.
Obutwa bwakyo bukola ki?
It is not venomous. Its poison is tetrodotoxin, which is found mainly in the ovaries, and to a lesser extent in the skin, muscles and liver. The toxin causes paralysis of involuntary muscles, the muscles the body controls without thinking. This can stop breathing or cause heart failure.1
Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?
Akabi eri abantu: KittaEmu ku nsolo ezisinga akabi mu nsi.It is extremely poisonous if eaten. Fatal poisonings have been reported in Egypt, Israel and Turkey.1
Omuntu bw'aba nga akikutteko oba akiridde
- Omuntu bw'aba nga akiridde oba alina obubonero oluvannyuma lw'okukirya: kuba amangu ddala ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze oba ekifo ekikola ku butwa (poison centre).
Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi
Weekuume
- Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
- Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
- Bw'oba okikutteko oba okiridde: tokolokota maaso go wadde akamwa, naaza engalo zo era funa obuyambi bw'abasawo.
Tekikunoonya. Obutwa bwakyo buliwo bwokka tewabaawo kikirya. Ebirala ku kwekuuma
Wa mu nsi?
Kinene kyenkana wa?
Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?
kiwanvu nga ndiizi 2 eziteekeddwa mu lunyiriri
kiwanvu nga bbulooka 12 ez'okuzannyisa mu lunyiriri
kyandisobodde okuwuga obuwanvu bw'ekidiba ekinene (m 50) mu sikonda 45Silver-cheeked toadfish kinene kyenkana wa bw'ogeraageranya ne GGWE?
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Ebituufu
It is poisonous because it eats bacteria that carry tetrodotoxin, and the toxin builds up in its body.1
Its ovaries hold the most tetrodotoxin, more than its skin, muscles or liver.1
It is a Lessepsian migrant, a species that has moved into the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal.1
It is spreading west through the Mediterranean, and it has been recorded as far west as the Strait of Gibraltar.1
The toxin protects it from voracious predators.1
It can grow to 40 cm long.1
Ku bakugu mu busagwa
- Erinnya erya ssaayansi
- Lagocephalus sceleratus
- Ekibinja
- Ensolo endala ez'obutwa
- Amaka
- Tetraodontidae2
- Ensengeka
- Tetraodontiformes
- Ssemazinga
- Oseyani ya Pasifiki, Oseyani y'e Buyindi, Ennyanja Emmyufu, Ennyanja ya Mediterenia, Ennyanja ya Timor ne Arafura, Ekikono kya Bengal, Oseyani
- Abaana abawere
- Eggs and larvae are found in the open water (pelagic zone).1
- Akabi eri abantu
- 5 / 5: Kitta3
Ebituufu we biva
- Lagocephalus sceleratus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Lagocephalus sceleratus (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
- Venom Wiki: omutendera gw'akabi, obunene obwa bulijjo n'okuteebereza kw'embiro bibyaffe. Laba engeri gye tubibalamu: Engeri gye tupimamu akabi.
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