Grass Puffer
Takifugu alboplumbeus
Photo: Totti / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
A small pufferfish of shallow coastal waters that gathers on gravel beaches to spawn. On the Murozumi Peninsula in Hikari, Yamaguchi, spawning occurs in early summer, a few days before the new or full moon. It begins two to three hours before high tide and ends before sunset. This coastal spawning ground is designated a Natural Monument of Yamaguchi Prefecture.
- Scientific name
- Takifugu alboplumbeus
- Group
- Fish
- Prefectures
- Yamaguchi
- 日本語
- クサフグ
- 简体中文
- 星点东方鲀（草河豚）
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