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Fugu mp/zobles (Jordan et
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Japanese sand puffer
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Descriptive notes :
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Adults attain about 15 cm in body length.
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Body slightly elongated and round.
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This species is the smallest among puffers found in Japan.
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Dorsal surface bluish—green with distinct, scattered
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light—yellow spots, ventral surface, lighter.
Live in the mouth of rivers near the seacoasts.
In the spawning season, swim to calm seacoasts in great
schools and lay eggs among the pebbles.
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Swimming movement
Have the characteristic of creeping in the sand.
This species has poisonous fles_h and entrails.
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Large lobus olfactorius closely adhered to relatively small
bulbus olfactorius.
Optic lobe well—developed.
inferior lobe quite large.
Corpus cerebelli and
acoustico-lateral lobe well-developed.
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