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THE AMAZING PUFFERFISH
By RichardGrade6Fessenden
SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFIACATION• KINGDOM:ANIMALIA• PHYLUM:CHORDATA• SUBPHYLUM:VERTATE• CLASS:ACTINOPTERYGII• SUBCLASS:NEOPTERYGII• INFACLASS:TELEOSTEI• ORDER:TETRAODONTIFORMS• FAMILY:TERAODONTIDAE
Apperence• All different colour• Spines all over body• Faces are exspresive• They smile always• Usually brown eyes
Habitat• They live in the the tropical water
of hawaii• They live in the coral reefs around
the world• Some pufferfish live in fresh water
there whole life
Life cycle• They spawn from May though
August in shallow,nearshore waters
• The female lays its eggs in mashy and muddy areas
Diet
• The pufferfish eats crayfish,crab,fish in the coral reefs,and they eat plants that live on the ground of the ocean floor
Predators• The predator of a pufferfish is a
whale or a shark and other large aniamals
How does this species help the enviroment• They kill unwanted aniamals • They keep the circle of life going
How do humans impact the pufferfish• In japan they go and hunt for them
and then they cook there poision off and eat them
How can we help the pufferfish?• To help the pufferfish we should
stop poluting the water• We should stop killing them
Intresting facts
• The pufferfish puffs up 2 times the size
• To atract females they puff up as big as they can
refrences• Google• Wikepidea• And the book aniamals called fish