Spotted scat
The spotted scat is a fish with a rectangular body covered in brown spots. It lives in shallow, muddy coastal waters across the Indo-Pacific, from the Persian Gulf to southeastern Australia. It can sting with small spines near its front, which makes it worth knowing about.1

Engeri y'okukitegeera
- Rectangular, strongly flattened body with a steep head profile1
- Body greenish-brown to silvery, with many brown to red-brown spots1
- Occurs in two colour forms, green scat and ruby or red scat1
- Juveniles are greenish-brown with a few large dark blotches or five or six dark vertical bars1
- Adults reach a maximum total length of 38 cm1
Amaanyi g'obusagwa
Amaggwa amasongovu ge galimu obusagwa. Okukirinnyako oba okukikwata kiruma.
Obusagwa bwakyo bukola ki?
The spotted scat has small spines in its front parts that inject venom when it stings. The venom causes great pain and dizziness.1
Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?
Akabi eri abantu: Kya bulumiKisobola okuluma ddala, naye kumpi tekiba kya kabi kinene.Its sting causes great pain and dizziness. Some people catch and eat it in its native waters, so fishers and anyone handling the fish are most at risk of being stung.1
Amaggwa gaakyo bwe gakufumita
- Treatment is often done by soaking the sting site in hot water.1
- Teeka ekiwundu mu mazzi agookya, agookya nga omuntu bw'asobola okugumiikiriza nga tegamwokya (gagezese n'omukono gwo), okumala eddakiika 30 okutuuka ku 90. Funa obuyambi bw'abasawo, naddala ku stonefish ne stingray.
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.
- Amaggwa gaayo bwe gakufumita: beera mukkakkamu, totambula, kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911) oba tuuka mu ddwaliro mangu. Jjukira bwe yali efaanana, ekifaananyi kiyamba.
Tekikunoonya. Kikozesa obusagwa bwakyo okukwata emmere oba okwekuuma, era kyandisinze kwekweka. Ebirala ku kwekuuma
Wa mu nsi?
Kinene kyenkana wa?
Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?
kiwanvu nga bbulooka 12 ez'okuzannyisa mu lunyiriri
kyandisobodde okuwuga obuwanvu bw'ekidiba ekinene (m 50) mu sikonda 33Spotted scat kinene kyenkana wa bw'ogeraageranya ne GGWE?
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Kidduka kyenkana wa?
Ebituufu
Young scats live in freshwater and move to saltwater as they mature.1
The spotted scat comes in two colour forms, a green scat and a ruby or red scat.1
Spotted scats live in schools.1
The spotted scat is a popular aquarium fish.1
Females become sexually mature at around 7 to 9 months old and about 150 g in weight, while males mature at a smaller size.1
Omumenyi w'enfumo
Enfumo: Scats are named because they feed on dung and offal.
Amazima: The name may be misleading. The habit of eating offal has not been confirmed in diet studies.1
Ku bakugu mu busagwa
- Erinnya erya ssaayansi
- Scatophagus argus
- Ekibinja
- Ebyennyanja eby'obusagwa
- Amaka
- Scatophagidae2
- Ensengeka
- Acanthuriformes
- Ssemazinga
- Oseyani y'e Buyindi, Oseyani ya Pasifiki, Ennyanja Emmyufu, Ennyanja ya Andaman, Ennyanja ya China ey'Obukiikaddyo, Ennyanja ya Bufilipino, Ennyanja ya Korali, Ennyanja ya Arabiya n'Ekikono kya Perusiya, Ennyanja ya Timor ne Arafura, Ekikono kya Bengal, Oseyani
- Abaana abawere
- Females lay transparent, spherical eggs about 0.7 mm across, which hatch about 20 hours after fertilisation.1
- Akabi eri abantu
- 2 / 5: Kya bulumi3
Ebituufu we biva
- Scatophagus argus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Scatophagus argus (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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