#Tetraodontidae

[internetdruid]

🥚 hey!!! I'd love something from the ocean or a dog-like creature (idk fur and four legs? Haha :v) have a great day!!!! 🐈‍⬛🐅🐆🦌🦬🐂🐪🦙🐘🦛🦔🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🦆🦤🦩🐊🦎🦕🦖🐋🦭🐠🐡🦈🐙 ( also plz no spiders?)

Gonna split the difference for you

Dog-faced puffer!

(Arothron nigropunctatus)

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Who says fish don’t have a sense of romance? Male pufferfish in the genus Torquigener certainly know how to woo ladies. In an open, sandy area a male will push his body through the sand in specific directions to create intricate, geometric patterns. The more complex the pattern, the more likely he is to attract a mate.

(Images: A male white-spotted pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus) biting the cheek of a female as a part of courtship, and an example of a pufferfish ‘crop circle’ by Yoji Okata)

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[rattyexplores]

Banded Toadfish spotted in a tidepool.

16/05/23 - Marilyna pleurosticta

QLD:CQC - Emu Park, rocky shoreline

[snototter]

A map pufferfish (Arothron mappa) off the coast of South Rinca Island, Indonesia

by François Libert

[coffeenuts]

[ancientfrozenglaciershark]

mall fishies:)

[anokha-swad]

[seabeachobjects]

[valerianodrawsthings]

MerMay's 17th mermaid was a Pufferfish!

[gessner-aldrovandi-et-amici]

Unicorn leatherjacket from Marcus Elesier Bloch’s Ichthyologie ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons. Berlin 1796.

Source: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library (online via Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26748).

[vcreatures]

The class of Sirenia is a vast and wide net of varying aquatic humanoids. Highly dimorphic and adaptable, mermaids (or merfolk) can be found in nearly every aquatic body, be it oceans, which has the largest number of species, to ponds and lakes. This adaptability and dimorphic nature of the species has allowed them to thrive across the globe. Despite their vast differences in appearances, one thing you’ll see consistently across the various species of Merfolk is the unique “false face” adaptation.This illusionary facial feature is believed to have evolved as a defense mechanism. The “true eyes” are typically located on the far side of their heads. While it’s “false eyes” are situated at the front, like that of a human’s. These false eyes are highly sensitive receptors. 

Noted species in the attached diagram 

A. Sirenia Atlanticus

B. Sirenia Sphyrnidae

C. Sirenia Tetraodontidae

D. Sirenia Decapodiformes

E. Sirenia Pterois

F. Sirenia Eurypharynx 

[daycarefriendpickup]

Well, Well... whale 🐋? If it isn't that time of year!

Hello you lovely ballpit goers! We here at DCFP have been hard at work behind the scenes on events to make sure you have tons of entertainment this mermay to draw with!

Presenting you with... The official Daycare Friend Pickup Mermay Prompt List for 2024!

We've got quite a variety up here for you all to choose and draw from this year! And for us to see it all, you'll have to make sure you tag it as #dcfpmermay or #dcfpmermay2024 !

Here's the prompt list broken down in more order!

Weekly

1. Tardigrade

2. Pinnipeds (Seals, Walruses, Sea Lions etc)

3. Cetaceans (Dolphins, Whales, Orcas, etc)

4. Echinoderms (Starfish, Brittle Stars, Sea Urchins, Sea Urchins, etc)

5. Anthozoa (That's right folks, coral is a sea creature too! Time to pump out the creativity on this week!)

Biweekly Prompts (That means one every half a week!)

•Week One

1. Medusozoa (Jellyfish)

2. Cephalopoda (Octos, Squids, Cuttles, and Nautilus!)

•Week Two

1. Limulidae (Horseshoe Crabs)

2. Nephropidae (Lobster time babes! 🦞)

•Week Three

1. Pantapoda (Sea Spiders) [Istiophoridae AKA Marlins this week if spider things freak you out]

2. Neritidae Aka Freshwater Snails/Nerites [Tetraodontidae AKA Pufferfish if Snails freak you out]

•Week Four

1. Rhincodon (Whale Shark)

2. Carcharhinidae (Requiem Sharks)

•Week Five

1. Muranidae (Moray Eels)

2. Torpediniformes (Electric Rays ⚡)

Bonus week of The Deep

(For if you finished everything else but want to do a little more!)

1. Chaulios (Viperfish)

2. Halosauridae (Halosaurs)

The event will go on from April 28th to June 2nd to give everyone who wants to pump out those mermaid drawings all that extra time to put love and attention into these prompts!

And remember, you do NOT have to do all of them! Just do what you feel comfortable with and draw to your fishy daycare's freedom ❤️.

Get ready folks, because it's going to be a splashing Mermay here at the pickup! 🌊

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #531

Pufferfish!

The pufferfish family’s name, Tetraodontidae, refers to their four large teeth which they use to crush hard-shelled prey’s defences!

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

How Knowledge Can Puff Up the Christian

by Jack Wellman

How does knowledge puff us up or make us prideful so we can avoid it happening to us. It made me think of the Blowfish (family of Tetraodontidae) which are closely related to the Porcupine fish and Puffer fish. These fish are analytical to the idea of biblical knowledge that comes without love. These fish are the second most poisonous vertebrate in the known world, being highly toxic to humans. Their unique and distinctive natural defenses have the ability to inflate rapidly. Some puffers also produce a powerful neurotoxin called tetrodotixon in their internal organs, making them unpleasant, and even lethal…

continue this article at What Christians Want to Know

[monsterpotion]

do you agree that pufferfish are the original tummygirls

look

listen

okay

i knew a lot of people who did improv, back in the city. friends of mine for a bit, some of them. the desire to yes-and this kind of question is strong in me, from that time of my life, and just from being, you know, a charming witch.

when a pal of mine tells a joke i'm right there to build them up. for the sake of the bit.

but this. this i cannot countenance. i mean no offense to the noble family Tetraodontidae. they've been doing their thing for 90 million years or more and they do it well.

but a tummygirl is fat. not some puffed up piscine pretender. you come to me with these questions about fish and women and i tell you i am a fat dyke who loves fat dykes and thats that.

and thats why women want me and why fish fear me.

[animal-of-the-day]

puffer fish :3

Animal of the day: Puffer fish!

Pufferfish are fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae. Their Latin name refers to their four large teeth, fused into an upper and lower plate, which are used for crushing the hard shells of crustaceans and molluscs, their natural prey.

They inflate by filling their elastic stomachs with vast quantities of water or air. This is a technique to evade predators, to make themselves seem too large to eat. They also have spines on their skin containing poison, which is foul tasting and often deadly.

Pufferfish teeth never stop growing, they are naturally worn down by the hard shells of their prey!