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

Uko wayimenya
- 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
Ikunze kwitiranywa na: It is very similar to the oceanic pufferfish. The silver-cheeked toadfish is more elongated and has a symmetrical tail fin.1
Imbaraga z'uburozi
Igira nabi gusa iyo hari ikiyiriye.
Uburozi bwayo bukora iki?
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
Iteje akaga kangana iki ku bantu?
Akaga ku bantu: YicaImwe mu nyamaswa ziteje akaga kurusha izindi ku isi.It is extremely poisonous if eaten. Fatal poisonings have been reported in Egypt, Israel and Turkey.1
Niba hari uwayikozeho cyangwa uwayiriye
- Niba hari uwayiriye cyangwa afite ibimenyetso nyuma yo kuyirya: hamagara ako kanya nimero y'ubutabazi cyangwa ikigo gishinzwe uburozi.
Buri gihe banza uhamagare nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911). Izi ni inama rusange z'ubutabazi bw'ibanze, si inama za muganga. Ibanze by'ubutabazi bw'ibanze
Irinde akaga
- Ntuzigere ukora, ufata cyangwa ushotora inyamaswa yo mu gasozi, nubwo yaba ntoya, kandi nubwo yasa n'isinziriye cyangwa yapfuye.
- Yihe umwanya. Niba uhuye n'imwe, tuza, usubire inyuma buhoro buhoro kandi uyireke yigendere.
- Niba wayikozeho cyangwa wayiriye: ntukube amaso cyangwa umunwa, karaba intoki kandi ushake ubufasha bwa muganga.
Ntigushakisha ngo ikugirire nabi. Uburozi bwayo buriho gusa kugira ngo hatagira ikiyirya. Ibindi ku kwirinda
Ni hehe ku isi?
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Ireshya ite?
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yakoga uburebure bw'ikidendezi kinini (metero 50) mu masegonda 45Silver-cheeked toadfish ingana ite ugereranyije NAWE?
Ni imibare gusa ikorerwa muri mudasobwa yawe. Nta kintu kibikwa cyangwa cyoherezwa ahandi.
Yihuta gute?
Ibintu by'ukuri
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 bahanga mu by'ubumara
- Izina rya siyansi
- Lagocephalus sceleratus
- Itsinda
- Izindi nyamaswa zifite uburozi
- Umuryango
- Tetraodontidae2
- Itsinda rinini (order)
- Tetraodontiformes
- Imigabane
- Inyanja ya Pasifika, Inyanja y'Abahinde, Inyanja Itukura, Inyanja ya Mediterane, Inyanja ya Timor na Arafura, Ikigobe cya Bengali, Inyanja ngari
- Abana bato
- Eggs and larvae are found in the open water (pelagic zone).1
- Akaga ku bantu
- 5 / 5: Yica3
Aho ibintu bivugwa bituruka
- Lagocephalus sceleratus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Lagocephalus sceleratus (iNaturalist): amazina n'ibyiciro.
- Venom Wiki: urwego rw'akaga, ingano isanzwe n'ikigereranyo cy'umuvuduko ni ibyacu bwite. Reba uko tubibara: Uko tugena akaga.
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