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

Mmene ungaizindikirire
- 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
Nthawi zambiri imasokonezedwa ndi: It is very similar to the oceanic pufferfish. The silver-cheeked toadfish is more elongated and has a symmetrical tail fin.1
Mphamvu ya poizoni
Ndi yoopsa pokhapokha chinachake chitaidya.
Poizoni wake umachita chiyani?
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
Ndi yoopsa bwanji kwa anthu?
Ngozi kwa anthu: YakuphaImodzi mwa nyama zoopsa kwambiri padziko lonse.It is extremely poisonous if eaten. Fatal poisonings have been reported in Egypt, Israel and Turkey.1
Ngati munthu waikhudza kapena waidya
- Ngati munthu waidya kapena ali ndi zizindikiro ataidya: imbira nambala yadzidzidzi kapena malo othandiza pa za poizoni (poison centre) nthawi yomweyo.
Nthawi zonse yamba wayimbira nambala yadzidzidzi (112, 000, 911). Awa ndi malangizo wamba a chithandizo choyamba, osati malangizo a dokotala. Zoyambira za chithandizo choyamba
Khala wotetezeka
- Usakhudze, kugwira kapena kuseweretsa nyama yakuthengo, ngakhale yaing'ono, ndipo ngakhale ikuoneka ngati yagona kapena yafa.
- Ipatse malo. Ukakumana nayo, khala chete, bwerera m'mbuyo pang'onopang'ono ndipo uilole ipite njira yake.
- Ngati unaikhudza kapena kuidya: usasisite maso kapena pakamwa, sambitsa m'manja ndipo peza thandizo la dokotala.
Sikufuna kukuvulaza. Poizoni wake ulipo kuti pasapezeke choidya. Zambiri za kukhala wotetezeka
Kuti padziko lapansi?
Ndi yaikulu bwanji?
Ndi yaitali bwanji?
yaitali ngati nthochi 2 zoyalidwa motsatizana
yaitali ngati zidutswa zomangira zoseweretsa 12 pamzere
ingasambire kutalika kwa dziwe lalikulu losambira (50 m) m'masekondi 45Silver-cheeked toadfish ndi yaikulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWE?
Ndi masamu chabe mu msakatuli wako. Palibe chomwe chimasungidwa kapena kutumizidwa kwina.
Imathamanga bwanji?
Mfundo
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
Za akatswiri a ululu
- Dzina la sayansi
- Lagocephalus sceleratus
- Gulu
- Nyama zina za poizoni
- Banja
- Tetraodontidae2
- Dongosolo
- Tetraodontiformes
- Makontinenti
- Nyanja ya Pacific, Nyanja ya Indian, Nyanja Yofiira, Nyanja ya Mediterranean, Nyanja ya Timor ndi Arafura, Nyanja ya Bengal, Nyanja zikuluzikulu
- Ana akhanda
- Eggs and larvae are found in the open water (pelagic zone).1
- Ngozi kwa anthu
- 5 / 5: Yakupha3
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Lagocephalus sceleratus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Lagocephalus sceleratus (iNaturalist): mayina ndi magulu a sayansi.
- Venom Wiki: mlingo wa ngozi, kukula wamba ndi kuyerekeza kwa liwiro ndi zathu. Ona mmene timazipezera: Mmene timayezera ngozi.
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