![]() That is, same puffer fish can be poisonous in rainy season but may be non-poisonous in summer season. It should be mentioned that all the puffer fishes found in freshwater environment of Bangladesh are poisonous and the poison level in there body varies with season to season. In recent times, news of illness and get killed due to its consumption published in various newspaper of the country. But still, some people especially poor rural people living around rivers, beels, haors-baors, estuarine and coastal areas consume this fish. In Bangladesh, most of people do not take this fish as food. In some foreign country like Japan, puffer fishes are considered as highly prices and delicious food items but the number of death incidents in Japan due to puffer fish is not too low. It has no pelvic fins and remaining all fins are rounded and grayish in color. This species marked with a rounded black colored stop at each side of the body. ![]() cutcutia is a globe-shaped fish of yellowish-green body color above and with whitish beneath. However, most of the puffer fishes found in the north-west, north-east, and northern part of Bangladesh is T. cutcutia is more common than the other one. Two species found in freshwater are ocellated puffer fish ( Tetraodon cutcutia and Tetraodon potoca). Puffer fishes are locally known as ‘Potka’ or ‘Tepa’. Statistically spoken, there are approximately more than 20 species of puffer fish species are found in marine environment of Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, two species of puffer fishes are found in freshwater environment and several species are found in marine environment but this number is still not specified yet. This type of incident is not a new one, every year especially during the rainy season a lot of people are killed due to its (puffer fish) toxicity. ‘Puffer fish’ became a burning issue in recent times when several people died after consuming this fish in different places of Bangladesh.
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