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The skin of the shousai puffer has no small spines.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Vermiculated Puffer
- Scientific name
- Takifugu snyderi
- Japanese name
- ショウサイフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Takifugu
It lives along the coasts of Japan from the Tsugaru Strait to Kyushu, and off the southern and eastern coasts of the Korean Peninsula.
Its back has dark spots joined together, and the gaps between them look like irregular white spots.
How the Vermiculated Puffer lives
It swims in coastal waters and eats small animals.
三重県Basic data
- Range
- Sea of Japan, East China Sea and Pacific coasts from the Tsugaru Strait to Kyushu, and southern and eastern Korean Peninsula coasts
Where the Vermiculated 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
- ショウサイフグ
- 한국어
- 국매리복
- Español
- Fugu vermiculado
- Português (Brasil)
- Fugu-de-Snyder
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 — ショウサイフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- 三重県 — ショウサイフグ Takifugu snyderi 通称名：しおさいふぐ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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