Japanese pufferfish
Siyatyhefa xa sityiwaSiyatyhefa, asinatyhefu yokuluma okanye yokuhlabaThe Japanese pufferfish, also called the tiger puffer or torafugu, is a fish that lives in cold, shallow seas off East Asia. It is famous as a food in Japan, but its liver and ovaries contain a strong toxin, so it must be prepared with great care. It is also a key animal in genetics research.1

Amandla etyhefu
Siyingozi kuphela ukuba kukho into esityayo.
Ityhefu yaso etyhefayo (xa usichukumisa okanye usitya) yenza ntoni?
This pufferfish is poisonous rather than venomous. Some of its organs contain tetrodotoxin, a highly toxic substance, which is concentrated in the liver and ovaries, slightly present in the intestines and flesh, and absent from the skin and testes.1
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: SiyabulalaEsinye sezona zilwanyana ziyingozi emhlabeni.Its organs are highly toxic, so the liver and ovaries are the dangerous parts to eat. Only the flesh and skin are the parts that are safe to eat in regulated preparation.1
Ukuba umntu usichukumisile okanye usityile
- Ukuba umntu usityile okanye uneempawu emva kokusitya: tsalela inombolo kaxakeka okanye iziko lezityhefu (poison centre) ngoko nangoko.
Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala
Hlala ukhuselekile
- Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
- Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
- Ukuba usichukumisile okanye usityile: musa ukukhuhla amehlo okanye umlomo wakho, hlamba izandla zakho kwaye ufumane uncedo lwezonyango.
Asikuzingeli. Ityhefu yaso ikhona nje ukuze kungabikho nto isityayo. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile
Phi emhlabeni?
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
ubude obulingana neebhanana eziyi-2 zilandelelana
ubude obulingana neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-12 zilandelelana
singaqubha ubude bechibi elikhulu lokuqubha (50 m) ngemizuzwana eyi-45U-Japanese pufferfish mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?
Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.
Sikhawuleza kangakanani?
Iinyaniso
A genetically modified type called 22-seiki fugu, meaning 22nd-century fugu, has had four leptin receptor genes removed, which increases appetite. It grows on average 1.9 times faster than normal torafugu and is sold as food.1
Its genome is one of the smallest known among vertebrates, and it was the first vertebrate genome after the human genome to be made publicly available.1
Its genome has about 6% of the base pairs of the human genome, yet it has 22 chromosomes, close to the 23 in humans.1
It is one of the most valuable commercial fishes in Japan.1
It is used as a reference genome to help identify genes in human and other vertebrate genomes.1
Kwiingcali zetyhefu
- Igama lenzululwazi
- Takifugu rubripes
- Iqela
- Ezinye izilwanyana ezityhefayo
- Usapho
- Tetraodontidae2
- Ucwangco
- Tetraodontiformes
- Amazwekazi
- uLwandlekazi lwePasifiki, Iilwandlekazi
- Iintsana
- Spawning takes place in estuaries. Young fish stay in river mouths and lagoons for about one year before migrating permanently to the open ocean.1
- Imeko yaso endle
- Near Threatened1
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 5 / 5: Siyabulala3
Apho iinyaniso zivela khona
- Takifugu rubripes (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Takifugu rubripes (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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