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Tetraodontidae: Puffers, Blowfish, Porcupinefish - English
URL: http://www.floridasmart.com/subjects/ocean/animals_ocean_puff.htm

Ocean Animal Directory with 1000's of links to sea life resources including pufferfish, blowfish, porcupinefish, ocean mammals, fish, and more..

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Cow - English
URL: http://www.cowfishes.com/

Learn about cowfish and keeping them in captivity. Find sources for further questions and discussion.

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Pufferfish, puffers (freshwater and brackish) - English
URL: http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/puffers.htm

Info on Pufferfish, puffers.

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In Taiwan Family Tetraodontidae Have 29 Species - Chinese (trad.)
URL: http://fishdb.sinica.edu.tw/2001new/english/efishfind.asp?outline=480

List of species with images.

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The Fishes: Tetraodontidae - English
URL: http://www.amazonian-fish.co.uk/tetraodontidae.html

These fish are able to inflate themselves for defense. They are a mainly marine group and are the only family of plectognath fish to have invaded freshwaters. Colomesus asellus is a common species in main river channels, it does not enter floodplain lakes.

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Tetraodontidae - English
URL: http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Actinopt

Phylogeny.

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Tetraodontidae - English
URL: http://www.peterah.demon.co.uk/tetraod.htm

These fish are able to inflate themselves for defence. They are a mainly marine group and are the only family of plectoognath fish to have invaded freshwaters. A single species, Colomesus asellus, is found in the flowing channels of Reserva Mamiraua.

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Family Tetraodontidae - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.cfm?ID=448

Chiefly marine. Many going into and inhabiting brackish and freshwater. Distribution: tropical and subtropical areas of Atlantic, Indian and Pacific. Naked or with short prickles in belly. Jaw teeth fused but separated by a median suture in each jaw, giving rise to 4 fused teeth. Opposite dentaries and premaxillaries separate at midline. Usually 7-18 dorsal soft rays. Anal soft rays usually 7-18.

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Tetraodontidae - English
URL: http://cichlidresearch.com/fish_html/ftetraod.html

The Family Tetraodontidae contains these Genera: Amblyrhunchotes, Arothron, Canthigaster, Carinotetraodon, Chonerhinos, Colomesus, Conusus, Feroxodon, Javichthys, Lagocephalus, Omegophora, Sphoeroides, Takifugu = Fugu, Tetraodon, Torquigener, Xenopterus.

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InterNevod: Иглобрюхие (Tetraodontidae) - Russian
URL: http://www.internevod.com/rus/academy/bio/k_fish/tetraodontidae.shtml

Очень многие представители семейства ядовиты. Токсины в основном концентрируются в кожных покровах, в брюшине, в печени и в гонадах. Должным образом приготовленное мясо этих рыб употребляется в пищу во многих восточных странах, и особенно в Японии, где почитается блюдо под названием "фугу".

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