Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Takifugu> ?p ?o }
- Takifugu abstract "Takifugu is a genus of pufferfish, often better known by the Japanese name fugu (河豚, lit. \"river pig\"). There are 25 species belonging to the genus Takifugu and most of these are native to salt and brackish waters of the northwest Pacific, but a few species are found in freshwater of Asia or more widely in the Indo-Pacific region. Their diet consists mostly of algae, molluscs, invertebrates and sometimes crustaceans. The fish defend themselves by inflating their bodies to several times normal size and by poisoning their predators. These defenses allow the fish to actively explore their environment without much fear of being attacked.The fish is highly toxic, but despite this—or perhaps because of it—it is considered a delicacy in Japan. The fish contains lethal amounts of the poison tetrodotoxin in the internal organs, especially the liver and the ovaries, but also in the skin and the testes. Therefore, only specially licensed chefs can prepare and sell fugu to the public, and the consumption of the liver and ovaries is forbidden. But because small amounts of the poison give a special desired sensation on the tongue, these parts are considered the most delicious by some gourmets. Every year a number of people die because they underestimate the amount of poison in the consumed fish parts.The poison paralyzes the muscles while the victim stays fully conscious, and eventually dies from asphyxiation. There is currently no antidote, and the standard medical approach is to try to support the respiratory and circulatory system until the effect of the poison wears off.The fish is also featured prominently in Japanese art and culture.".
- Takifugu class Actinopterygii.
- Takifugu family Tetraodontidae.
- Takifugu kingdom Animal.
- Takifugu order Tetraodontiformes.
- Takifugu phylum Chordate.
- Takifugu phylum Vertebrate.
- Takifugu synonym "Fugu (T. Abe, 1952)".
- Takifugu thumbnail Fugu_in_Tank.jpg?width=300.
- Takifugu wikiPageExternalLink hugu2ka.html.
- Takifugu wikiPageExternalLink Fugu_rubripes.
- Takifugu wikiPageID "501723".
- Takifugu wikiPageLength "15783".
- Takifugu wikiPageOutDegree "167".
- Takifugu wikiPageRevisionID "697858329".
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink 10th_edition_of_Systema_Naturae.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Actinopterygii.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Algae.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Antidote.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Asphyxia.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Bacteria.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Blood.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Blue-ringed_octopus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Brackish_water.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Carl_Linnaeus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fish_of_Japan.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Category:Japanese_seafood.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Category:Poisonous_fish.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Category:Takifugu.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tetraodontidae.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Cheng_Qing-Tai.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Chu_Yuan-Ting.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Circulatory_system.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Coenraad_Jacob_Temminck.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Cone_snail.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Critically_endangered.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Crustacean.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Culture_of_Japan.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Cyanide.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink David_Starr_Jordan.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Endangered_species.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Esophagus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Fish_anatomy.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Fish_measurement.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Franz_Martin_Hilgendorf.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Gastrointestinal_tract.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Genome.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Genus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Grass_puffer.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Hermann_Schlegel.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Indo-Pacific.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Intron.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Invertebrate.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Japanese_art.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Japanese_cuisine.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Jewish_settlement_in_the_Japanese_Empire.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink John_Otterbein_Snyder.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink John_Richardson_(naturalist).
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Kuang_Yong-De.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Li_Chun-Sheng.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Liang_Sen-Han.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Liver.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Marcus_Elieser_Bloch.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Model_organism.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Mollusca.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Muscle.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Natural_selection.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Neurotoxin.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Newt.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Ni_Yong.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Noncoding_DNA.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Ovary.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Predation.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Pseudomonas.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Respiratory_system.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Seafood.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Sequencing.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Skin.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Sphere.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Stomach.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_alboplumbeus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_bimaculatus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_chinensis.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_chrysops.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_coronoidus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_exascurus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_flavidus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_oblongus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_obscurus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_ocellatus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_orbimaculatus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_pardalis.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_plagiocellatus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_poecilonotus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_porphyreus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_pseudommus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_radiatus.
- Takifugu wikiPageWikiLink Takifugu_reticularis.