Tetraodontidae

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Etymology

From Tetraodon +‎ -idae.

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Tetraodontidae

  1. A taxonomic family within the order Tetraodontiformes – a family of fish, such as the pufferfish.
    • 2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine[1] (in English), archived from the original on 1 January 2021:
      Westerners have never quite understood the reverence in Japan for fugu, alternately known in English as puffer fish, globefish or blowfish, of the family Tetraodontidae.

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