Puffer fish

It is difficult to name a more expensive and at the same time very dangerous dish in Japanese cuisine than cooked puffer fish. The average cost of one medium-sized fish is about $300, and the price of a set meal is $1000 or even more. The incredible toxicity of representatives of the species is due to the presence in the tissues of fish of a huge amount of tetrodoxin. The meat of one fish can cause fatal poisoning in three dozen people, and the level of toxicity of tetrodoxin is higher than strychnine, co***ne and curare poison.

The average life expectancy of the Brown puffer fish in natural conditions very rarely exceeds 10–12 years. It is assumed that among other representatives of the Takifugu genus, there are also no centenarians.

The world of reptiles is so diverse that very interesting and unusual representatives are often found, about which we know very little. The Belttail Lizard is an ancient exotic animal that has gone through all stages of evolution up to the present day

Poisonous species of the pufferfish family (Tetraodontidae) also have other, less well-known names:

skalozubovye (with a monolithic structure of teeth that are fused together);
four-toothed, or four-toothed (with teeth fused on the jaws, due to which two upper and two lower plates are formed);
dog fish (with a well-developed sense of smell and the ability to identify odors in the water column).