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Tetraodontidae (Puffers) > Tetraodontinae
Etymology: Takifugu: A Japanese word with several meanings; taki = waterfall + fugu = fish; it could be also understood as taki = to be cooked in liquid + fugu = a venomous fish.
More on authors: Temminck & Schlegel.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
marino; agua dulce; salobre demersal; no migratorio. Temperate; 46°N - 21°N, 119°E - 142°E
Northwest Pacific: western part of the Sea of Japan and the East China and Yellow seas northward to Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 80.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 56527); common length : 40.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 637)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Espinas dorsales (total) : 0; Radios blandos dorsales (total) : 16 - 19; Espinas anales: 0; Radios blandos anales: 13 - 16; Vértebra: 21 - 22. Body covered with prickles; presence of a large round black blotch edged with a white line on side just behind pectoral fin (Ref. 559).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.
Adults are found in inlet waters, occasionally entering brackish waters. Fingerlings are often seen in brackish river mouths (Ref. 58920). Move offshore with growth. Breed in the sea (Ref. 58920) from March to May; attach eggs to rocks in shingly areas at depths of around 20 m. Liver and ovaries extremely toxic, intestines slightly toxic; flesh, skin and testes not poisonous. Juveniles resemble Takifugu niphobles (Ref. 637). A prized food fish in Japan. Said to be commercially cultured in Japan at present. Used in Chinese medicine (Ref. 12166). One of the first vertebrates whose genome has been sequenced completely, 31,059 genes coding for 33,609 proteins (Ref. 58917).
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino, 1984. The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p. (text). (Ref. 559)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Poisonous to eat (Ref. 637)
Usos humanos
Pesquerías: muy comercial; Acuicultura: comercial
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Temperatura preferida (Referencia
123201): 13.5 - 23, mean 19 °C (based on 96 cells).
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01660 (0.00743 - 0.03706), b=2.92 (2.74 - 3.10), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Nivel trófico (Referencia
69278): 3.6 ±0.57 se; based on food items.
Resiliencia (Referencia
120179): Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (K=0.15-0.17; assuming tm<5).
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref.
59153): Low to moderate vulnerability (30 of 100).
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Nutrientes (Ref.
124155): Calcium = 33.8 [12.1, 75.6] mg/100g; Iron = 0.417 [0.219, 0.855] mg/100g; Protein = 18.9 [16.7, 21.2] %; Omega3 = 0.664 [0.289, 1.400] g/100g; Selenium = 17.1 [7.6, 37.7] μg/100g; VitaminA = 5.76 [2.01, 17.07] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.506 [0.365, 0.732] mg/100g (wet weight);