Silver-cheeked Toadfish (Pufferfish) Lagocephalus sceleratus
A pufferfish with deadly tetrodotoxin in its body; never eat it and watch your fingers.
- Family: Tetraodontidae
- Rarity: Common
- Average length: 40 cm
- Max length: 110 cm
- Max weight: 7 kg
- Habitat: sandy
- Regions: indo-pacific, red-sea, mediterranean
- Edible: not recommended
Did you know?
Its beak-like teeth can bite through fishing line and hooks.
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