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Tetraodontidae

Index Tetraodontidae

The Tetraodontidae are a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes. [1]

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Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor

An acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (often abbreviated AChEI) or anti-cholinesterase is a chemical or a drug that inhibits the acetylcholinesterase enzyme from breaking down acetylcholine, thereby increasing both the level and duration of action of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

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Activated carbon

Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, is a form of carbon processed to have small, low-volume pores that increase the surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions.

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Amami Ōshima

is one of the Satsunan Islands, and is the largest island within the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.

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Amblyrhynchotes

Amblyrhynchotes is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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Aposematism

Aposematism (from Greek ἀπό apo away, σῆμα sema sign) is a term coined by Edward Bagnall PoultonPoulton, 1890.

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Arothron

Arothron is a genus in the pufferfish family Tetraodontidae found in warm parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.

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Arothron meleagris

Arothron meleagris, commonly known as the guineafowl puffer or golden puffer, is a pufferfish from the Indo-Pacific, and Eastern Pacific.

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Arothron stellatus

Arothron stellatus, also known as the stellate puffer, starry puffer, or starry toadfish, is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae.

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Auriglobus

Auriglobus is a genus of freshwater pufferfishes native to Southeast Asia.

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Bandtail puffer

The bandtail puffer (Sphoeroides spengleri) is a species in the family Tetraodontidae, or pufferfishes.

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Blood pressure

Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels.

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Brackish water

Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.

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Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources

The Philippines' Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (Kawanihan ng mga Pangisdaan at mga Yamang-Tubig, abbreviated as BFAR), is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Agriculture responsible for the development, improvement, management and conservation of the Philippines' fisheries and aquatic resources.

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Canthigaster

Canthigaster is a genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae).

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Carinotetraodon

Carinotetraodon is a genus of small freshwater pufferfish found in South and Southeast Asia.

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Carinotetraodon irrubesco

Carinotetraodon irrubesco, known commonly as the red-tail dwarf puffer, is a freshwater pufferfish found only in the lower Banyuasin basin in South Sumatra and the Sambas River in West Kalimantan.

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Caucasus Mountains

The Caucasus Mountains are a mountain system in West Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region.

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Chameleon

Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015.

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Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857), was a French biologist and ornithologist.

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Chelonodon

Chelonodon is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indo-Pacific.

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Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chonerhinos naritus

Chonerhinos naritus, the bronze pufferfish or yellow pufferfish, is a species of pufferfish native to Southeast Asia, where mainly found in estuarine and coastal habitats.

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Coastal fish

Coastal fish, also called inshore fish or neritic fish, inhabit the sea between the shoreline and the edge of the continental shelf.

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Colomesus

Colomesus is a genus of pufferfishes confined to tropical South America.

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Colomesus asellus

Colomesus asellus, the Amazon puffer, asellus puffer, South American freshwater puffer or Peruvian puffer is a species of pufferfish confined to the Amazon, Essequibo and Orinoco basins in tropical South America.

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Coma

Coma is a state of unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awaken; fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound; lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle; and does not initiate voluntary actions.

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Contusus

Contusus is a genus of pufferfishes native to the coastal waters of southern Australia and New Zealand.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.

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Cyanide

A cyanide is a chemical compound that contains the group C≡N.

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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist.

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Dichotomyctere

Dichotomyctere is a genus of relatively small pufferfish found in both fresh and brackish waters in south and southeast Asia.

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Dichotomyctere nigroviridis

Dichotomyctere nigroviridis (syn. Tetraodon nigroviridis) is one of the pufferfish known as the green spotted puffer.

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Dorsal fin

A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates such as fishes, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), and the (extinct) ichthyosaur.

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Dwarf pufferfish

The dwarf pufferfish (Carinotetraodon travancoricus), also known as the Malabar pufferfish (leading to easy confusion with the related C. imitator), pea pufferfish or pygmy pufferfish, is a small, freshwater pufferfish endemic to Kerala and southern Karnataka in Southwest India.

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Edrophonium

Edrophonium is a readily reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.

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Eocene

The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.

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Eolactoria

Eolactoria sorbinii is an extinct prehistoric boxfish that lived during the Lutetian epoch of the middle Eocene, in Monte Bolca.

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Eotetraodon

Eotetraodon is an extinct genus of prehistoric puffer fish that lived during the Lutetian epoch of middle Eocene.

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Ephippion guttifer

Ephippion guttifer, commonly known as the prickly puffer, is a species of pufferfish native to the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Gibraltar to Angola.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Feroxodon multistriatus

Feroxodon multistriatus, known as the manystriped blowfish, manystriped pufferfish,Froese, R., and D. Pauly, eds.

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Fish fin

Fins are usually the most distinctive anatomical features of a fish.

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Fugu

The fugu (河豚; 鰒; フグ) in Japanese or bogeo (복어) or bok (복) in Korean is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish.

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Fugu chiri

Fugu chiri is a pufferfish soup.

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Gastric lavage

Gastric lavage, also commonly called stomach pumping or gastric irrigation, is the process of cleaning out the contents of the stomach.

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Gastrointestinal tract

The gastrointestinal tract (digestive tract, digestional tract, GI tract, GIT, gut, or alimentary canal) is an organ system within humans and other animals which takes in food, digests it to extract and absorb energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste as feces.

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Guentheridia formosa

Guentheridia formosa, the spotted puffer, is a species of pufferfish native to the coasts of the eastern Pacific Ocean from Costa Rica to Ecuador.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Intubation

Intubation (sometimes entubation) is a medical procedure involving the insertion of a tube into the body.

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IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Javichthys kailolae

Javichthys kailolae is a species of pufferfish known only from the Bali Strait off Java in Indonesia.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Lagocephalus

Lagocephalus is a genus of fish in the family Tetraodontidae with a circumglobal distribution.

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Leiodon cutcutia

Leiodon cutcutia,Kottelat, M. (2013): The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, Supplement No.

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Liver

The liver, an organ only found in vertebrates, detoxifies various metabolites, synthesizes proteins, and produces biochemicals necessary for digestion.

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Lutetian

The Lutetian is, in the geologic timescale, a stage or age in the Eocene.

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Marilyna

Marilyna is a genus of pufferfishes native to the western Pacific Ocean.

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Mbu pufferfish

The Mbu puffer, giant puffer or giant freshwater puffer (Tetraodon mbu) is a carnivorous freshwater pufferfish originating from the middle and lower sections of the Congo river in Africa, as well as the east coast of Lake Tanganyika near the Malagarasi River mouth.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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Monte Bolca

Monte Bolca is a lagerstätte near Verona, Italy that was one of the first fossil sites with high quality preservation known to Europeans, and is still an important source of fossils from the Eocene.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Narrow-lined puffer

The narrow-lined pufferfish (Arothron manilensis) is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae.

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Neurotoxin

Neurotoxins are toxins that are poisonous or destructive to nerve tissue (causing neurotoxicity).

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Northern puffer

Northern puffer, Sphoeroides maculatus, is a species in the family Tetraodontidae, or pufferfishes, found along the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Order (biology)

In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.

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Organ (anatomy)

Organs are collections of tissues with similar functions.

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Ostraciidae

Ostraciidae is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes.

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Ovary

The ovary is an organ found in the female reproductive system that produces an ovum.

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Pao (fish)

Pao is a genus of mostly freshwater pufferfish with one species (P. leiurus) also occurring in brackish water.

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Paralysis

Paralysis is a loss of muscle function for one or more muscles.

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Paralytic shellfish poisoning

Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is one of the four recognized syndromes of shellfish poisoning, which share some common features and are primarily associated with bivalve mollusks (such as mussels, clams, oysters and scallops).

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Patterns in nature

Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world.

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Pelagic zone

The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean, and can be further divided into regions by depth.

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Pelagocephalus marki

Pelagocephalus marki, the Rippled blaasop, is a species of pufferfish known from the coasts of South Africa and New Zealand.

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Polar regions of Earth

The polar regions, also called the frigid zones, of Earth are the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.

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Porcupinefish

Porcupinefish are fish belonging to the family Diodontidae (order Tetraodontiformes), also commonly called blowfish and, sometimes, balloonfish and globefish.

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Proaracana

Proaracana dubia is an extinct, prehistoric aracanid boxfish that lived during the Lutetian of middle Eocene Monte Bolca.

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Red tide

Red tide is a common name for a worldwide phenomenon known as an algal bloom (large concentrations of aquatic microorganisms—protozoans or unicellular algae) when it is caused by species of dinoflagellates and other organisms.

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Reicheltia halsteadi

Reicheltia halsteadi, Halstead's toadfish, is a species of pufferfish endemic to Australia.

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Saxitoxin

Saxitoxin (STX) is a potent neurotoxin and the best-known paralytic shellfish toxin (PST).

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.

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Shimonoseki

is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

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Signalling theory

Within evolutionary biology, signalling theory is a body of theoretical work examining communication between individuals, both within species and across species.

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Skin

Skin is the soft outer tissue covering vertebrates.

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Smooth toadfish

The smooth toadfish (Tetractenos glaber) is a species of fish in the pufferfish family Tetraodontidae.

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Sphere

A sphere (from Greek σφαῖρα — sphaira, "globe, ball") is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space that is the surface of a completely round ball (viz., analogous to the circular objects in two dimensions, where a "circle" circumscribes its "disk").

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Sphoeroides

Sphoeroides is a genus of pufferfishes.

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Spinacanthidae

Spinacanthidae is an extinct prehistoric family of tetraodontid bony fish that lived from the Lutetian epoch of Eocene Monte Bolca.

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Spiny blaasop

Tylerius spinosissimus, the spiny blaasop, is a species of pufferfish.

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Stomach

The stomach (from ancient Greek στόμαχος, stomachos, stoma means mouth) is a muscular, hollow organ in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and many other animals, including several invertebrates.

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Synodontidae

Synodontidae or lizardfishes(or typical lizardfish to distinguish them from the Bathysauridae and Pseudotrichonotidae) are benthic (bottom-dwelling) marine and estuarine bony fishes that comprise the aulopiform fish family, a diverse order of marine ray-finned fish consisting of some 15 extant and several prehistoric families.

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Takifugu

Takifugu is a genus of pufferfish, often better known by the Japanese name.

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Takifugu rubripes

Takifugu rubripes, commonly known as the Japanese puffer, Tiger puffer, or torafugu (虎河豚), is a pufferfish in the genus Takifugu. It is distinguished by a very small genome that has been fully sequenced because of its use as a model species and is in widespread use as a reference in genomics.

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Temperate climate

In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.

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Tetractenos

Tetractenos is a genus of Tetraodontidae.

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Tetraodon

Tetraodon is a genus in the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae) found in freshwater in Africa.

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Tetraodontiformes

The Tetraodontiformes are an order of highly derived ray-finned fish, also called the Plectognathi.

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Tetrodotoxin

Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent neurotoxin.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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Thoracic diaphragm

For other uses, see Diaphragm (disambiguation). The thoracic diaphragm, or simply the diaphragm (partition), is a sheet of internal skeletal muscle in humans and other mammals that extends across the bottom of the thoracic cavity.

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Tiger shark

The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is a species of requiem shark and the only extant member of the genus Galeocerdo.

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Titusville, Florida

Titusville is a city in and the county seat of Brevard County, Florida, United States.

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Torquigener

Torquigener is a genus of pufferfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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Torquigener albomaculosus

Torquigener albomaculosus, or the white-spotted pufferfish, is the twentieth discovered species of the genus Torquigener.

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Toxicity

Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism.

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Tropics

The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Valentin's sharpnose puffer

Valentin's sharpnose puffer (Canthigaster valentini), also known as the saddled puffer or black saddled toby, is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae.

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Vertebrate

Vertebrates comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata (chordates with backbones).

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White-spotted puffer

The white-spotted puffer (Arothron hispidus) is a medium to large-sized puffer fish, it can reach 50 cm length.

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Zignoichthys

Zignoichthys oblongus is an extinct prehistoric relative of the pufferfish and porcupine fish that lived during the Lutetian epoch of the Eocene.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraodontidae

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