Finepatterned puffer
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Finepatterned puffers have small spines on their bodies.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Finepatterned puffer
- Scientific name
- Takifugu poecilonotus
- Japanese name
- コモンフグ
- 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, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
It looks very much like the shousai puffer, but can be told apart by the larger white spots on its back.
How the Finepatterned puffer lives
It lays eggs in spring. In early summer near Shimonoseki, newly born young can be found among seaweed. It eats crustaceans, sea urchins, starfish, squid and small fish. In Toyama Bay, it disappears from shallow water in winter and is then found offshore.
市立しものせき水族館 海響館公益財団法人 環日本海環境協力センターBasic data
- Range
- Seto Inland Sea, Korean Peninsula coast, Jeju Island, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere
Where the Finepatterned 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
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 — コモンフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- 市立しものせき水族館 海響館 — コモンフグChecked: 2026-11-07
- 公益財団法人 環日本海環境協力センター — コモンフグChecked: 2026-11-07
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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