Today Xiaobian gives you the popular science of the pufferfish is the head striped lily [morphological characteristics] dorsal fin 2 + 8; fin 2 +6; Pectoral fin 16; Caudal fin 1+8+2.
The body is sub-cylindrical, slightly longer, the cephalothorax is thick and rounded, and gradually narrowed backwards; the anterior part is thicker and rounder, and the backwards are gradually narrowed; the tail stem is slender, and the posterior part is gradually flattened; the body length is 3.4 to 3.7 times the body height, which is 2.6-2.8 times the head length. The head is slightly shorter; the head length is 2.1 to 2.3 times the length of the snout, which is 4.8 - 5.4 times the diameter of the eye. The kiss is round and blunt. The eye is small, laterally and high; the eye septum is wide and flat or slightly concave, about 2.1 times the diameter of the eye. 2 nostrils on each side, located on either side of the nasal flap. The nasal flap is an oval protrusion that is closer to the eye than to the snout. Small mouth, anterior position, flat and horizontal. The upper and lower jaws each have two beak-like tooth plates, and the central bone slit is prominent. The lips are well developed and finely lobed, with a longer lower lip and both ends curved upwards to the sides of the upper lip. The ule is large, shallowly curved, slightly lower, in-line, fissured, and located in front of the base of the pectoral fin. Carp cap membrane white.
The dorsal spines are slightly in front of the nostrils to the beginning of the dorsal fin , which are sparsely arranged ; There are no small spines on the side of the head and the back of the pectoral fin, around the mouth and on the tail. The lateral line is well developed, upper laterally positioned, and gradually folds below the base of the dorsal fin to the center of the tail, extending to the base of the caudal fin. There are several side lines. The lateral skin folds of the body are well developed.
1 dorsal fin, sickle-shaped, located above the posterior anus, with 2 unbranched and 8-branched fins. The fin is homomorphic to the dorsal fin, starting later than the dorsal fin, with 2 non-branching and 6-branch fins. The pectoral fin is broad and short, lateral, slightly lower, nearly square, with 2 upper fins without branches, and the first fin is small protrusions. The caudal fin is truncated at the rear end.
The dorsal and lateral upper parts of the head are greenish brown, and the back is scattered with many small round spots of light blue color, and the diameter of the spots is less than half the diameter of the eye. There are many irregular black-brown motifs in the interstitial gaps, and there are several dark brown transverse bands on the front of the head, under the eyes, and at the posterior end, with orange-red between the transverse bands. The underside of the body is yellow and the abdomen is white. Each fin is pale. The puffer cavity is pale yellow.
【Distribution】Produced in China along the coast of the South China Sea. The Indian Ocean stretches from southern Africa to micronesia in the central Pacific, south to Australia, and north to Japan.
[Life habits] Warm water small and medium-sized demersal fish. Its natural habitat is shallow coastal waters. It feeds mainly on shellfish, conch, shrimp and crabs and small fish. The body length is generally 100 ~ 150mmo
【Toxicity】The body contains pufferfish toxin (TTX), produced in Taiwan, its ovaries and liver are highly toxic, the skin and muscles are non-toxic or weakly toxic, the intestines and sperm nest are non-toxic to the strong poison field "Chong md see * But some people think that their ovaries have strong poison, the skin, liver, intestine and gallbladder are weak, the sperm nest is non-toxic foot blessing, Shao Guangzhao 27], should be fasted.
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