Valentin's sharpnose puffer
Strupena za zaužitjeJe: Malo vsegaStrupena za dotik ali zaužitje, ne ob ugrizu ali pikuValentin's sharpnose puffer is a small reef fish with four black stripes across its back. It lives in warm seas across the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and parts of the Pacific. It is special because its skin holds one of the most potent natural poisons known, which keeps most predators away.1

Kako jo prepoznaš
- Four distinct black stripes, called saddles, run across its back.1
- The head is blue-grey.1
- The main body is white, speckled with blue-grey spots.1
- The tail and fins show hints of yellow, and a rainbow streak sits behind the eyes.1
Pogosto zamenjujejo z: The filefish Paraluteres prionurus has similar colours and sometimes swims in schools with this puffer. It mimics the puffer's appearance for protection, but it is not toxic.1
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Škodljiva je samo, če jo kaj poje.
Kaj naredi njen strup, če se je dotakneš ali jo poješ?
Its skin and other tissues contain tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin, which attacks the nerves. It is one of the most potent naturally occurring toxins and is lethal to many species of fish. This makes the fish unpalatable to predators.1
Kako nevarna je za ljudi?
Nevarnost za ljudi: ResnoČe jo kdo poje, naj gre k zdravniku. Smrtni primeri so zelo redki.It is highly poisonous to eat.1
Kaj naredi, ko se prestraši?
It gulps water to puff its body up to three or four times its normal volume, and its toxic skin deters predators.1
Če se je je kdo dotaknil ali jo pojedel
- Če jo je kdo pojedel ali ima po zaužitju simptome: takoj pokliči številko za klic v sili ali center za zastrupitve.
Vedno najprej pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911). To so splošna navodila za prvo pomoč, ne zdravniški nasvet. Osnove prve pomoči
Ostani varen
- Nikoli se ne dotikaj divje živali, je ne lovi in je ne draži, tudi če je majhna in tudi če je videti, kot da spi ali je mrtva.
- Pusti ji prostor. Če jo srečaš, ostani miren, počasi stopi nazaj in jo pusti, da gre svojo pot.
- Če si se je dotaknil ali jo pojedel: ne drgni si oči ali ust, umij si roke in poišči zdravniško pomoč.
Ne preži nate. Njen strup je tam samo zato, da je nihče ne poje. Več o varnosti
Kje na svetu?
Kako velika je?
Kako dolga je?
dolga kot 3 kock za igranje v vrsti
zmore preplavati dolžino velikega bazena (50 m) v 45 sekundahKakšne velikosti je Valentin's sharpnose puffer v primerjavi s TABO?
Samo matematika v tvojem brskalniku. Nič se ne shrani in nič se nikamor ne pošlje.
Kako hitra je?
Dejstva
Its tetrodotoxin is one of the most potent naturally occurring toxins, and it is lethal to many fish.1
A non-toxic filefish, Paraluteres prionurus, has evolved to look like this puffer, which helps it avoid predators.1
Its eggs are unpalatable, so predatory fish rarely eat them, and any swallowed eggs are quickly passed out again. This means the parents need not guard them.1
Juveniles of the grouper Plectropomus laevis also mimic its colours.1
Its eggs, at 0.68 to 0.72 mm across, are among the smallest in the puffer family Tetraodontidae.1
Razbijalec mitov
Mit: Pufferfish hold their breath while they puff up.
Resnica: A 2014 study found that oxygen consumption actually increases while the fish is inflated. Oxygen intake through the gills is almost five times higher than normal.1
Za strokovnjake za strupe
- Znanstveno ime
- Canthigaster valentini
- Skupina
- Druge živali, strupene za dotik ali zaužitje
- Družina
- Tetraodontidae2
- Red
- Tetraodontiformes
- Celine
- Tihi ocean, Indijski ocean, Rdeče morje, Koralno morje, Filipinsko morje, Južnokitajsko morje, Timorsko in Arafursko morje, Oceani
- Mladiči
- Females lay anywhere between fifteen and over 800 eggs at a time, every four to ten days depending on the season.1
- Nevarnost za ljudi
- 3 / 5: Resno3
Od kod so dejstva
- Valentin's sharpnose puffer (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Canthigaster valentini (iNaturalist): imena in razvrstitev.
- Venom Wiki: stopnja nevarnosti, tipična velikost in ocena hitrosti so naše lastne. Poglej, kako jih določimo: Kako ocenjujemo nevarnost.
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