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Japanese pufferfish

Takifugu rubripes

名字的由來： Takifugu is Japanese for puffer, and rubripes comes from the Latin words for ruddy foot.1

致命地球上最致命的動物之一。如果有人吃了牠，要立刻求救。快速救援和抗毒血清能救活大多數人。立刻打緊急電話。

其他有毒動物

吃了會中毒有毒（碰或吃會中毒），不是有毒液

對人的危險: 致命世界上最危險的動物之一。

The 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

有毒還是有毒液？有毒液的動物會用咬或螫把毒液注入身體。有毒的動物則是碰到或吃下去會有害。這種動物是有毒的（碰或吃會中毒）。

分布在

Sea of Japan, East China Sea and Yellow Sea, north to southern Sakhalin1

太平洋

首頁

It is a demersal fish, meaning it lives on or near the seabed, at depths of 10 to 135 metres (33 to 443 feet). Spawning takes place in estuaries, where young fish can cope with a wide range of salt levels and stay in river mouths and lagoons.1

長度

40 cm (1,3 ft)3

一般成體大小

最高速度

大約 4 km/h（2,5 mph）

游泳, 粗略估計

Japanese pufferfish 的照片 — Japanese pufferfish。照片：Totti。 CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

毒素力量

吃了會中毒

只有被吃下去時才有害。

牠的毒素有什麼作用？

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

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 致命世界上最危險的動物之一。

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

如果有人碰了或吃了牠

如果有人吃了牠，或吃了之後出現症狀：立刻打緊急電話或打給毒物諮詢中心。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果你碰了或吃了牠：不要揉眼睛或摸嘴巴，把手洗乾淨，並且就醫。

牠不是想來抓你。牠的毒只是為了不讓別的動物吃掉牠。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲太平洋

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

跟 2 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長跟 12 塊玩具積木排成一排一樣長可以在 45 秒內游完一座大游泳池（50 公尺）

Japanese pufferfish 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一個正在游泳的人 大約 3 km/h (1,9 mph)

Japanese pufferfish 大約 4 km/h (2,5 mph)

奧運游泳選手 大約 8 km/h (5 mph)

值得知道

小知識

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

給毒液專家

學名: Takifugu rubripes
類群: 其他有毒動物
家人: Tetraodontidae2
排序: Tetraodontiformes
各大洲: 太平洋, 海洋
寶寶: 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
牠在野外的狀況: Near Threatened1
對人的危險: 5 / 5: 致命3