Spot-fin porcupinefish
The spot-fin porcupinefish is a spiny fish that lives in warm seas around the world. It is poisonous to eat, because it stores a strong poison called tetrodotoxin in parts of its body. It lives mostly on coral and rocky reefs.1

毒素力量
只有被吃下去時才有害。
牠對人有多危險?
對人的危險: 嚴重如果有人吃了牠,要去看醫生。死亡案例非常罕見。牠害怕時會做什麼?
When threatened, it swallows water to inflate its body to a larger size, raises its spines, and relies on tetrodotoxin stored in its organs to deter predators.1
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
牠有多大?
牠有多長?
跟 2 隻家貓從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長
跟 5 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長
可以在 45 秒內游完一座大游泳池(50 公尺)Spot-fin porcupinefish 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?
小知識
It can inflate itself by swallowing water, making its body much larger to scare off predators.1
It stores tetrodotoxin in its liver, skin, gonads and other organs, so it is harmful to eat.1
Juveniles live in open water, floating in the sea until they reach about 20 cm long.1
Adults are solitary, except during the mating season, and are most active at sunset and sunrise.1
Its liver often holds cysts from a parasite, but these pose no danger to humans.1
知識的出處
- Spot-fin porcupinefish (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Diodon hystrix (iNaturalist): 名稱和分類。
- Venom Wiki: 危險等級、一般大小和速度估計都是我們自己定的。看看我們是怎麼算出來的: 我們怎麼評估危險.
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如果有人碰了或吃了牠