Animalia > Chordata > Tetraodontiformes > Tetraodontidae > Takifugu > Takifugu vermicularis

Takifugu vermicularis (Purple puffer; Pear puffer)

Synonyms: Fugu vermicularis; Spheroides abbotti; Sphoeroides vermicularis; Tetraodon vermicularis
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Wikipedia Abstract

Takifugu vermicularis, the Purple puffer, is a species of pufferfish native to the northwest Pacific Ocean where it occurs in the waters around China, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea and Japan. This species is of commercial importance though the flesh is toxic. This species grows to a length of 30 centimetres (12 in) SL.
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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Benedenia epinepheli[1]
Bianium hemistoma[2]
Heterolebes immaculosus[2]
Opecoeloides fugus[2]
Opistholebes microovus[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, 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