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unusual facts about puffer fish



Liberty Science Center

Eat and Be Eaten - this exhibit of life animals explores the predator-prey relationship, offering lots of live animals including deadly vipers, amazing puffer fish, and scores of other creatures.

Treasure Cove!

The cove has three separate areas that the player must visit and collect gems to plug the pipes that leak "goobies" by finding the puffer fish and dropping it on the opening.


see also

Vibrionaceae

Members of this family also synthesize tetrodotoxin (TTX), an ancient marine alkaloid and powerful neurotoxin (Na+ pump inhibitor, 1 mg can kill an adult) that serves to protect members of an order of fishes, the Tetraodontiformes (tetras-four and odontos-tooth), which include the puffer fish (see fugu, raw puffer fish served in Japan).