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Selective focus on eyes and head of puffer fish. (Lagocephalus sceleratus, silver-cheeked toadfish, or Sennin-fugu is an extremely poisonous marine bony fish in the family Tetraodontidae)

$Fisherman collects fish from fishnet at Sulu sea.\nPalawan Island - Philippines.$

A stranded puffer fish on the beach in Australia.

Dried pufferfish carcass on sandy Delisha Beach, Socotra Island, Yemen.

Blue Bottles and puffer fish washed up on Sydney Beach

Dried Puffer Fish. Porcupine fish have the ability to inflate their body by swallowing water (or air) and become round like a ball. This increase in size (almost double vertically) reduces the range of potential predators to those with much bigger mouths. A second defense mechanism is provided by the sharp spines, which radiate outwards when the fish is inflated.

Puri, Odisha, West Bengal, India. A washed up dead spikey Porcupine fish on the golden sands of Puri beach. Puri, India. Photo taken around 01/27/23

The dark side of Bali's beaches. Thousands tonnes of waste being washed ashore by the ocean.

This dried up puffer fish washed ashore on Maserah Island, Oman

Carcass of a puffer fish washed up by the tide on a beach in Brazil

Washed up Porcupine fish, similar in looks to puffer fish or balloon fish on a tropical beach of Indian Ocean. This exotic creature is also known as balloon fish because for self defense, the evolution has developed the organs of fish in such a way, that sensing threat, the fish swells up from the middle like a balloon firing in outward direction its prickly long spines, deadly enough to scare its predators away. Such washing up of exotic fishes are very common these days, endangering the existence of many of such species worldwide, the reason behind this may be attributed to the uncontrollable and excessive fishing by the coastal fishermen. Besides, on the beaches neighboring very wide area adjoining harbour, ship oil spills are causing marine pollution polluting the water, thus lowering the oxygen levels. Climate change due to global warming is also threatening a wide array of marine species.

Hawaiian Spotted Pufferfish aka toad fish washed up on a beach on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

$White-spotted Puffer Arothron hispidus occurs in the tropical Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea and East Africa to Panama, north to southern Japan and the Hawaiian Islands, south to Lord Howe and Rapa islands, in the Eastern Pacific from the Baja California and the Gulf of California to Panama in a depth range from 1 to 50m, max. total length 50cm, max. weight 2kg. \nThe species inhabits outer reef slopes to depths of at least 50 m, inner reef flats and lagoons. Juveniles are common in weedy areas of estuaries, near rocky reef or on sand-stretches between reefs with low algae-rubble reef to about 20 meters depth, or in shallow with sparse seagrass growth. \nArothron hispidus feeds on fleshy, calcareous, or coralline algae, detritus, mollusks, tunicates, sponges, corals, zoanthid anemones, crabs, tube worms and echinoderms. \nThe species is toxic to predators and humans. If consumed, the tetrodotoxin (TTX) can cause symptoms like numbness, muscle weakness, respiratory failure, and even death. \nDespite their toxicity, pufferfish like Arothron hispidus are sometimes consumed in specific cultures (such as Japanese fugu), but only when prepared by licensed professionals who know how to remove toxic parts safely. \nLembeh Strait, Indonesia\n1°29'33.414 N 125°15'40.446 E at 17m depth$

Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes.

A stranded puffer fish on the Australian beach.

Picture is taken in 2017. It shows a stranded pufferfish at the Great Ocean Road in Australia.

Plastic pollution at sea is a critical environmental issue with severe implications for marine ecosystems, wildlife, and human health

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