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