Silver-cheeked toadfish
Siyatyhefa xa sityiwaSitya: InyamaSiyatyhefa, asinatyhefu yokuluma okanye yokuhlabaThe 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

Indlela yokusiqaphela
- 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
Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: It is very similar to the oceanic pufferfish. The silver-cheeked toadfish is more elongated and has a symmetrical tail fin.1
Amandla etyhefu
Siyingozi kuphela ukuba kukho into esityayo.
Ityhefu yaso etyhefayo (xa usichukumisa okanye usitya) yenza ntoni?
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
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: SiyabulalaEsinye sezona zilwanyana ziyingozi emhlabeni.It is extremely poisonous if eaten. Fatal poisonings have been reported in Egypt, Israel and Turkey.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-Silver-cheeked toadfish mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?
Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.
Sikhawuleza kangakanani?
Iinyaniso
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
Kwiingcali zetyhefu
- Igama lenzululwazi
- Lagocephalus sceleratus
- Iqela
- Ezinye izilwanyana ezityhefayo
- Usapho
- Tetraodontidae2
- Ucwangco
- Tetraodontiformes
- Amazwekazi
- uLwandlekazi lwePasifiki, uLwandlekazi lwaseIndiya, uLwandle oluBomvu, uLwandle lweMeditera, uLwandle lweTimor ne-Arafura, iBhayi yaseBengal, Iilwandlekazi
- Iintsana
- Eggs and larvae are found in the open water (pelagic zone).1
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 5 / 5: Siyabulala3
Apho iinyaniso zivela khona
- Lagocephalus sceleratus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Lagocephalus sceleratus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
- Venom Wiki: inqanaba lengozi, ubungakanani obuqhelekileyo noqikelelo lwesantya zezethu. Bona indlela esizifumana ngayo: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.
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