Diagnostic Description
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Body without prickles (Ref. 559). Brownish above, white below; occasionally with dark spots on flanks (Ref. 4919). Tip of or all lower ray of the caudal white.
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- Cristina V. Garilao
Morphology
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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7 - 9; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 8 - 9
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- Cristina V. Garilao
Trophic Strategy
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Oviparous. Dwells in benthic muddy, sandy and rocky substrates (Ref. 127989). Young are pelagic (Ref. 7251). Feeds mainly on squid.
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- Drina Sta. Iglesia
Biology
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Inhabit sandy, muddy and rocky bottoms (Ref. 2683). Young are pelagic (Ref. 7251). Feed mainly on squid. In southeast Brazil captured between 50 and 145 m (Ref. 47377).
Importance
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fisheries: commercial
分布
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分布於全世界溫、熱帶海域。台灣南部、西部、北部、東北部、小琉球及澎湖海域有產。
利用
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肝臟及卵巢有毒，皮膚、精巢及肌肉無毒，可食用，具經濟性。
描述
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體亞圓筒形，稍側扁，體前部粗圓，向後漸細，尾柄長圓錐狀。鼻孔小，每側2個，鼻瓣呈卵圓形突起。體腹側下緣無縱行皮褶。體背光滑無棘，但具許多細小之縱行皮褶。鰓孔內側黑色。背鰭尖形，位於體後部，具軟條7-9，明顯位於臀鰭之前；臀鰭與其同形，具軟條8-9；無腹鰭；胸鰭寬而略長，近方形，後緣稍凹入；尾鰭中等長，截形，或上下葉緣及中央部位略突，呈微雙凹形。體背部為青灰色，體側淺灰色，腹面乳白色；體背部和側面有時具不規則分布且大小不等的黑褐色斑點。背、臀鰭淺灰色；尾鰭暗色，僅下葉具白緣；胸鰭灰白色，下緣白色。
棲地
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暖溫水近海底層小型魚類，主要棲息於泥沙底的大陸棚緣，深度可達近500公天，一般在50-250公尺間。幼魚行大洋性漂浮生活。主要以軟體動物、甲殼類、棘皮動物及魚類等為食。
Blunthead puffer
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The blunthead puffer, Sphoeroides pachygaster, is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, found circumglobally in tropical and temperate seas, at depths between 50 and 500 m. First recorded in the Mediterranean Sea off the Spanish coast in 1981, after entry via the strait of Gibraltar, it invaded the western basin in following decades and now reaches eastward the Adriatic Sea, the Aegean Sea and Levantine waters.[1] Its length is up to 40 cm. It is an edible species, and is commonly eaten in Japan, where it is referred to as 'yorito fugu', and has a lower concentration of tetrodotoxin compared to other species of pufferfish prepared and eaten as fugu, but caution is needed as its liver contains dangerous levels of the toxin, and must not be eaten.[2][3]
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Sphoeroides pachygaster" in FishBase. April 2012 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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Blunthead puffer: Brief Summary
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The blunthead puffer, Sphoeroides pachygaster, is a pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae, found circumglobally in tropical and temperate seas, at depths between 50 and 500 m. First recorded in the Mediterranean Sea off the Spanish coast in 1981, after entry via the strait of Gibraltar, it invaded the western basin in following decades and now reaches eastward the Adriatic Sea, the Aegean Sea and Levantine waters. Its length is up to 40 cm. It is an edible species, and is commonly eaten in Japan, where it is referred to as 'yorito fugu', and has a lower concentration of tetrodotoxin compared to other species of pufferfish prepared and eaten as fugu, but caution is needed as its liver contains dangerous levels of the toxin, and must not be eaten.
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Diet
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Feeds mainly on squid
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Distribution
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circumglobally in tropical and temperate seas; Western Atlantic: La Have Bank to Argentina
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Habitat
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Inhabits sandy, muddy and rocky bottoms.
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Habitat
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benthic
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Habitat
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Known from seamounts and knolls
Stocks, K. 2009. Seamounts Online: an online information system for seamount biology. Version 2009-1. World Wide Web electronic publication.
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