Monday, December 8, 2008

Finally identified, Takifugu niphobles (grass puffer)

I got bored at work today and decided to figure out what species of puffer I caught last August in Japan, or die trying. It actually wasn't that difficult, even though I had spent considerable time trying to identify it when I first got back to the states.

Image from fishbase.



Picture of me holding two of the puffers from Shiraishi Island, Japan.

2 comments:

T. Brook Smith said...

Ben, it has been a pleasure following your blog this year.

My daughter just started an aquarium and we're going to put natives in it. Once we can take a picture, we'll post it so you can compare it to your own. I suspect they will be similar (except that my daughter insisted on pink gravel).

Ben said...

Thanks Tim! Looking forward to seeing the aquarium pics, and seeing what you choose to put in there.