A big pufferfish lurked in there and I took its portrait before making my way up to the superstructure, still in the lee of the current. |
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The pufferfish contains a neurotoxin and, if not prepared properly, can quickly kill a human being who eats it. |
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Shoaling barracuda with an escort of silky sharks, masked butterflyfish, masked pufferfish and the remnants of the snapper shoals. |
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Mantis shrimp skulked liked cats under the jetty, one feasting on a juvenile pufferfish that had strayed too close to its spearing claws. |
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However, it makes a good home for numerous pufferfish, porgies and sweetlips, and surgeonfish shoal in the open water nearby. |
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Butterflyfish, angelfish and pufferfish cruised around and a zebra lionfish rested on a small patch of sand. |
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Where the boulders meet the sand there are many fish species, including stingrays, parrotfish and pufferfish. |
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A relative of the pufferfish, mola molas have very large cartoon-like eyes and small, succulent mouths. |
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Scientists at the Fisheries Ecology Research Centre in the southern Japanese fishing town of Yobuko claim to have developed a poisonless pufferfish. |
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One small pinnacle was especially remarkable, with 6 anemones and 25 clownfish. A large sweetlips and a pufferfish. |
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Most people think inflated pufferfish hold their breath, and compensate for oxygen debt by absorbing oxygen directly through their skin. |
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One was not a pufferfish but a frogfish that had swallowed some prey so large it was having difficulty using its silly, paddle-like pectoral fins. |
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Red-Sea pufferfish colonising the eastern Mediterranean are so poisonous they kill about one in ten people who unwittingly eat them. |
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A similar fish, the black-spotted pufferfish, does not have the black splash around its mouth and can be found throughout the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. |
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The test kit is now being used by US agencies to screen Atlantic pufferfish for saxitoxin. |
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It doesn't bother Walter when Kufi bumps into him: he's so large he hardly notices a prod from a pufferfish. |
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Both pufferfish and zebrafish have a second glucagon receptor-like gene that is most closely related to the characterized goldfish glucagon receptor. |
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We saw crabs, eels, batfish, unicornfish, pufferfish, boxfish, lionfish, squirrelfish, racoonfish, butterflyfish, parrotfish and angelfish, to name just a few. |
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Wrasse, butterflies, boxfish, porcupines and pufferfish round out the picture, while lyretail grouper, Napoleon wrasse and rock cod mix with regal, map and other angelfish. |
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Fugu fferfish, fatal ed w, is the Japanese name for the poisonous pufferfish, which can be fatal if not prepared properly. |
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All puffed out: do pufferfish hold their breath while inflated? |
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Two white tip sharks, two moray eels, a lobster, interesting anemones that closed themselves, taking the shape of a cube, some nudibranchs, two pufferfish. |
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I'm talking abalone, sea slug and pufferfish. |
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Its achievements include leading an international consortium that successfully sequenced the entire pufferfish genome. |
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Illegal fishing targets some of the most expensive species, including shrimp, fugu pufferfish, lobster, whole abalone and sea urchin uni. |
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They studied pufferfish young, or larvae, which begin life with normal conical teeth, taking hundreds of snapshots of the fishes developing. |
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Only then do I register the polar bear hanging from a rafter, the turtle shells, an armadillo, a leopard-skin jacket, narwhal tusk, horseshoe crab, box of animal parts, pufferfish. |
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Known and respected for its dangerous toxicity, the pufferfish must be expertly prepared by a master sushi chef or the result can be a highly unpleasant or even fatal meal. |
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On other excursions we also saw humongous sponges, brain coral, pufferfish and boxfish. |
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Also referred to as pufferfish, blowfish, sea squab and globefish, fugu Varies in degrees of toxicity. |
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Just a few centimetres male Japanese pufferfish long this tiny creature creates an elaborate, mathematically perfect design in the sand to try and impress a potential mate. |
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The results show a clear ecological impact when alien species either become dominant, like pufferfish, or are piscivores, like barracuda and cornetfish. |
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Pufferfish can balloon into a spiky sphere within moments of sensing a nearby threat. |
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