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delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver

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any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe

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"Pufferfishes are some of the strangest fish in the ocean, particularly because they have a reduced skeleton, beak-like dentition and they form spines instead of scales not everywhere, but just in certain patches around the body," said the corresponding author Gareth Fraser in the study published in the journal of 'iScience.'
Here's how pufferfish got its wacky spines
The Porcupinefishes are related to the similar Pufferfishes, which share the ability to inflate but generally lack large spines though the skin is often tough and prickly.
Don't Kick This Ball
gibbosum, such as the Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus), Hogfishes, (Lachnolaimus maximus) and Pufferfishes, Tetraodontidae spp.
Natural prey preferences and spatial variability of predation pressure by Cyphoma Gibbosum (Mollusca: Gastropoda) on octocoral communities off La Parguera, Puerto Rico
2005; Inoue & Nakaya 2006), like genera of unrelated pufferfishes (Breder & Clark 1947) and two genera of filefishes, Brachaluteres and Paraluteres (Clark & Gohar 1953), in the teleost order Tetraodontiformes.
Cephaloscyllium stevensi: a new species of swellshark (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from Papua New Guinea
The pufferfishes (tetraodontidae) of the Atlantic Ocean.
Cambios alimenticios en tres especies de Sphoeroides (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) posterior al huracan Isidoro en Bocana de la Carbonera, sureste del Golfo de Mexico
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