World Species : Lagocephalus sceleratus (Spotted rough-backed blowfish; Silverstripe blaasop; Silver-cheeked toadfish; Silvercheeked toadfish; Silver toadfish; North-West blowfish; Giant toadfish; Silverside blaasop)

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Lagocephalus sceleratus (Spotted rough-backed blowfish; Silverstripe blaasop; Silver-cheeked toadfish; Silvercheeked toadfish; Silver toadfish; North-West blowfish; Giant toadfish; Silverside blaasop)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789), known as the silver-cheeked toadfish, is an extremely poisonous marine bony fish in the family Tetraodontidae (puffer fishes).

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Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location	Species	Website	Climate	Land Use
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site			Queensland, Australia

Consumers

Parasitized by
Maculifer subaequiporus	^[1]

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♦ ¹Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0