Fugu

The typical fish-shaped and clearly different from other ordinary fish that is okay. So by carefully separating it from a collection of other fish that are not toxic, unnecessary accident actually occurred. Pufferfish body is not flat like regular fish, but rather like stomach. To ensure that the fish are actually poisonous pufferfish, usually checked anyway shape teeth. Parallel jaws teeth have grown to be one. At first glance resemble a bird's beak. Both the upper and lower jaws rahas, teeth are fused along the width of the mouth is separated by a gap in the middle, so it looks like a puffer fish toothed only four long-term. These properties later

Lunaris Gastrophysus

Lunaris Gastrophysus . Lunaris like banana, yellow banana unpeeled, if you're flaring, ears like a rugby ball, when it's bulging, looking gold fish pufferfish Tetraodon pufferfish Fluviatilis fish-like bananas, but his back pictorial leaked balls. Wrapping the fish oil has a picture Arothron reticularis like Diodon Hystrix like durian fruit durian that are inflated. Thorns nothing but the scales on their skin alone that has changed shape. Maybe because Linnaeus first not familiar with durian then he buys name hystrix (hedgehogs) to wrapping durian. The Englishman then called porcupine fish. We do not be tempted to articulated porcupine pufferfish but stick with pufferfish name durian. Both bundles banana, coconut and durian usually live around coral reefs but sometimes there are also entering the river mouth by the sea. There's even going home and caught freshwater environment. Type Tetraodon Palembangensis even sedentary life in freshwater Musi River, until it can be exported as an ornamental aquarium fish freshwater to the Netherlands via Singapore. There is another type of pufferfish that live in the

Diodon Hystrix

Pacific Ocean, known as the fish rubripes sphaeroides globe fish, because it can be inflated like a globe that was not spiked. Globe fish are used as delicatesse in special restaurants which exert koko berijawah authorized the government to process the poisonous Globe fish Fish. Wrapping the box type Ostracion tuberculatus also spiked. He swam in the Indo Pacific seas with bone plates covered bodies. His appearance and stiff like kstaria armor of the 11th century. Parts of the body can still move just the tail, dorsal fin and pelvic fins alone. Meat is not eaten by people but the box is dried for sale to foreign tourists. Wrapping the type horn Lactoria Formasini like wrapping boxes as well but given his forehead big thorn that stuck to the front. May be used for ramming enemy but it is likely also only display  other fish to scare children.

immortalized in the name of their tribe. Tetra (four) odontidae (the toothed). Wrapping the fish bananas, or sphaeroides

coconut shell on its back is brown. Whereas pufferfish

Tetraodon pufferfish

Tasty but toxic

Wrapping the fish to be able to pump her body with a round balloon swallowing the water (or air when he was out of the water) until the stomach is full. Belly skin prickly little then expands like durian swelling. Because the spine is now standing upright. Then unattractive engulfed by wild fish.

If it is not able to move bloated fish floating upside down but with the belly on top. Wrapping the fish meat a delicious banana too, is not surprising because their diet daily in the form of a delicious seafood as well as shrimp, clams, oysters, squid and sea cucumbers. But there are deadly behind the target deliciousness. Anyone who is not careful process. Gonada (ovarian) and liver (liver) contains a highly poisonous toxin tetrodotoxin. Levels of 10 micrograms per kilogram of body weight alone was lethal for mice. What else more than that. For humans can be deadly. Ancient fish pufferfish toxin widely used to poison the tips of arrows among the population of Micronesia to injure the enemy. Toxins from attacking faction is neotoxin nerve paralyzing the respiratory muscles and menggangggu. Victim of a cold sweat. But usually vomiting weak cold sweat before symptoms appeared. If the victim vomiting drugs so quickly given back most of the venom spewing from the belly is usually given in addition he helped the rest of the antidote that neutralizes the poison. If you have not had time to circulate throughout the body, the toxins can still be addressed by medical personnel.

Safe processing

Fugu Fillet

Accidental poisonings usually occur because no fish processors sorting fish will jeis diolahnya by type. Usually small fish (under 8 cm) are not sorted yet. However, fish processors educated and responsible've since from when buying fish at the fish auction auction began sorting. Only a safe type of course chosen. Wrapping the fish poisoned deliberately handled carefully. Section clearly Gonada and liver toxic, so cultivated right by the restaurant chefs who serve fugu, fish offal agara not break apart when separated from the body of the fish. Offal is disposed and absolutely should not contaminate the fish meat. After washed fugu meat thinly sliced ​​once so easy and tasty chew. Because fugu meat was rather tough. Cut it with a special knife that had previously been washed clean and not polluted by this toxic fish bile. Processing which meet the standards of a good quality and safe make consumers remain alive.

Source: John Soeseno