Blackspotted puffer
Sinoshevu uma sidliwaSidla: Kancane kwakho konkeSinoshevu, asinabo ubuthi bokuluma noma bokuhlabaThe blackspotted puffer is a small tropical sea fish that lives on coral reefs and in lagoons across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is poisonous rather than venomous, so it is dangerous to eat but does not bite or sting.1

Indlela yokusibona
- Small, oval, rounded body with no scales; the skin is smooth.1
- Short snout with two pairs of nostrils and four strong teeth.1
- Background colour varies: grey, light brown, bluish, bright yellow or orangey yellow, and sometimes two colours such as blue and yellow.1
- Skin covered in dark blotches of varying size and shape.1
- Dark colouring around the eyes and mouth.1
Ivamise ukudidaniswa ne: The yellow colour forms are very similar to those of Arothron meleagris, but they can be told apart. The fully yellow form is much rarer in this species (about 1% of individuals, compared with 10% in A. meleagris). It usually keeps dark markings around the mouth, eyes and base of the dorsal fin, while A. meleagris is uniformly yellow with black spots.1
Amandla oshevu
Siyingozi kuphela uma kukhona okusidlayo.
Ushevu waso wenzani?
It is not venomous. It holds tetrodotoxin, a deadly poison that protects it from predators.1
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: Kuyingozi kakhuluSingabulala umuntu ongatholi kwelashwa.Its tetrodotoxin is deadly. The risk comes from eating or handling the fish.1
Senzani uma sesabile?
When threatened, it inflates its body by swallowing air or water.1
Uma umuntu esithintile noma esidlile
- Uma umuntu esidlile noma enezimpawu ngemva kokusidla: shayela inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo noma isikhungo soshevu (poison centre) ngokushesha.
Njalo shayela kuqala inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911). Lokhu kuyiseluleko sosizo lokuqala esijwayelekile, akusona iseluleko sezokwelapha. Izisekelo zosizo lokuqala
Hlala uphephile
- Ungalokothi uthinte, ubambe noma ugcone isilwane sasendle, ngisho noma sincane, futhi ngisho noma sibukeka silele noma sifile.
- Sinike isikhala. Uma uhlangana naso, hlala uzolile, uhlehle kancane bese usiyeka sihambe ngendlela yaso.
- Uma usithintile noma usidlile: ungahlikihli amehlo noma umlomo wakho, geza izandla zakho futhi uthole usizo lwezokwelapha.
Asikuzingeli wena. Ushevu waso ukhona nje ukuze kungabikho okusidlayo. Okwengeziwe mayelana nokuhlala uphephile
Kuphi emhlabeni?
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
side njengezitini zamathoyizi ezingu-10 ezilandelanayo
singabhukuda ubude bechibi elikhulu lokubhukuda (50 m) ngemizuzwana engu-45Blackspotted puffer mkhulu kangakanani uma uqhathanisa NAWE?
Yizibalo nje kusiphequluli sakho. Akukho okulondolozwayo noma okuthunyelwa ndawo.
Sishesha kangakanani?
Amaqiniso
Its tetrodotoxin poison is strong enough to protect it from predators.1
It has no scales, and its skin is covered with dark blotches.1
It has no pelvic fins and no lateral line.1
It is active during the day and lives alone, defending its own territory.1
It has four strong teeth set in a terminal mouth.1
Okongoti bobuthi
- Igama lesayensi
- Arothron nigropunctatus
- Iqembu
- Ezinye izilwane ezinoshevu
- Umndeni
- Tetraodontidae2
- Ukuhleleka
- Tetraodontiformes
- Amazwekazi
- ULwandlekazi iPacific, ULwandlekazi i-India, Ulwandle Olubomvu, Ulwandle iCoral, Ulwandle lwasePhilippines, Ulwandle lwaseNingizimu China, Ulwandle lwaseTimor ne-Arafura, Ichweba laseBengal, Izilwandlekazi
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 4 / 5: Kuyingozi kakhulu3
Lapho amaqiniso evela khona
- Blackspotted puffer (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Arothron nigropunctatus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa ngezigaba.
- Venom Wiki: izinga lengozi, usayizi ojwayelekile nesiqagela sejubane kungokwethu. Bona ukuthi sikubala kanjani: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.
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