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Prefectural Natural Monument
Fish
Grass Puffer
Takifugu alboplumbeus
A small pufferfish of shallow coastal waters that gathers on gravel beaches on spring-tide nights to spawn. Murozumi in Hikari, Yamaguchi, is a well-known spawning ground, and the sight of many puffers crowding onto the beach is protected as 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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The Grass Puffer is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Yamaguchi.
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