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

Maziviro ayo
- 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
Simba reuturu
Mazonzwa akapinza ndiwo anotakura uturu. Kuitsika kana kuibata kunorwadza.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
The spotted scat has small spines in its front parts that inject venom when it stings. The venom causes great pain and dizziness.1
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.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
Kana minzwa yayo ikakubaya
- Treatment is often done by soaking the sting site in hot water.1
- Isa ronda mumvura inopisa, inopisa sezvinokwanisa munhu asina kutsva (iedze neruoko rwako), kwemaminitsi 30 kusvika 90. Wana rubatsiro rwechiremba, kunyanya kustonefish nemastingray.
Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga
Gara wakachengeteka
- Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
- Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
- Kana minzwa yayo ikakubaya: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.
Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka
Kupi pasi rose?
Yakakura sei?
Yakareba zvakadii?
yakareba sezvidhinha zvematoyi 12 zvakateedzana
inogona kushambira kureba kwedziva guru rekushambira (50 m) mumasekondi 33Spotted scat yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.
Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
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
Kuputsa ngano
Ngano: Scats are named because they feed on dung and offal.
Chokwadi: The name may be misleading. The habit of eating offal has not been confirmed in diet studies.1
Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu
- Zita resainzi
- Scatophagus argus
- Boka
- Hove dzine uturu
- Mhuri
- Scatophagidae2
- Odha
- Acanthuriformes
- Makondinendi
- Gungwa reIndia, Gungwa rePacific, Gungwa Dzvuku, Gungwa reAndaman, Gungwa reChina yeKumaodzanyemba, Gungwa rePhilippines, Gungwa reCoral, Gungwa reArabia neGulf yePersia, Gungwa reTimor neArafura, Gungwa reBengal, Makungwa makuru
- Vacheche
- Females lay transparent, spherical eggs about 0.7 mm across, which hatch about 20 hours after fertilisation.1
- Ngozi kuvanhu
- 2 / 5: Inorwadza3
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Scatophagus argus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Scatophagus argus (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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