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Panther puffers sometimes eat fishing bait.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Panther puffer
- Scientific name
- Takifugu pardalis
- Japanese name
- ヒガンフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Takifugu
It lives along the coasts of Japan from Hokkaido to Kyushu, and off the Korean Peninsula and in the Yellow Sea.
Basic data
- Range
- Sea of Japan, East China Sea, Seto Inland Sea, Korean Peninsula coast, Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, Jeju Island, and elsewhere
Where the Panther puffer has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ヒガンフグ
- 简体中文
- 豹纹多纪鲀
- 繁體中文
- 豹紋多紀魨
- 한국어
- 졸복
- Español
- Fugu pantera
- Português (Brasil)
- Fugu-pantera
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ヒガンフグChecked: 2026-11-04
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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