Grass puffer
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Grass puffer eggs are washed by waves into layers of gravel on the shore.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Grass puffer
- Scientific name
- Takifugu niphobles
- Japanese name
- クサフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Takifugu
A pufferfish often seen along the coasts of Japan; it is common in bays and often burrows into the sand.
It often enters places where seawater and river water mix, and very rarely even goes into fresh water.
On spring-tide nights from early summer into summer, many gather at the water's edge to spawn.
How the Grass puffer lives
Females lay eggs between pebbles, and males release sperm over them. During spawning, sperm clouds the water’s surface white. The newly hatched young swim offshore with the spring tide.
光市Basic data
- Range
- Seto Inland Sea, Hachijo Island, Okinawa Islands, East China Sea, Aniva Bay in Sakhalin, Korean Peninsula coast, and elsewhere
Where the Grass 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
- クサフグ
- 简体中文
- 星点东方鲀
- 繁體中文
- 黑點多紀魨
- 한국어
- 복섬
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá nóc sao
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 — クサフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- 光市 — 令和8年度クサフグ産卵について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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