The Puffer Forum

Pufferfish is "Balon Baligi" in Turkish.
"Balon" is simply baloon and "balik" is fish.

How about others?

poisson ballon in french (fish ball)... but to be honest, we say puffer!!

It's "fugu" in Japanese, as most people know. The characters mean "river pig", appropriately enough.

Well CArino= Cute
and tetraodon is the type of poison puffers have so I think carinotetraodon means cute/little poison.

really?!? Carino is cute? That's funny! Cute little poison... didn't think the taxonomist had that kind of humor when naming things!

Mandarin is "huh twoon." Not proper Pinying, because I never learned to do that properly.
But the first word, I think means lake (again, my mandarin sucks), and not sure what the second word means, but it's the same second word as in dolphin (hai twoon, first word is sea).

Crazed, what language is "carino"? All I could find in latin was "ship/vessel" (or keel, but I think that's pushing the definition a little far in this case).

Nusquam wrote:
Crazed, what language is "carino"? All I could find in latin was "ship/vessel" (or keel, but I think that's pushing the definition a little far in this case).

Italian, I think it applies to a few other languages though.

carino = keel (Latin carina)
tetraodon = 4 tooth (Greek)

the toxin tetrodotoxin is named for the puffer not vice verse.

Carinotetraodon is the freshwater genus where the males have keels they can erect during courtship, for threatening.

Here is Puffer fish in kanji: パッファーの魚

Corvus wrote:carino = keel (Latin carina)
tetraodon = 4 tooth (Greek)

the toxin tetrodotoxin is named for the puffer not vice verse.

Carinotetraodon is the freshwater genus where the males have keels they can erect during courtship, for threatening.

Thats pretty cool! You know the latin forms of other puffer genus'?

That's all I know:

Tetraodon = 4 teeth
Biocellatus = 2 eyes

Carino = Carinus, diminutive of carus, "darling, dear, that is appreciated".

Puffer or Pufferfish is called BAIACU (BY-A-coo) in portuguese (that's my nick name ), but I don't know what baiacu means in latin.

cara, carus, carina:
http://www.behindthename.com/name/carina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_%28constellation%29

The scientist who named Carinotetraodon states the "keel" meaning

yunachin wrote:Here is Puffer fish in kanji: パッファーの魚

How can we pronounce it? Would you pls try to spell it in English?
By the way I think "Baiacu Verde Pintado" is GSP and, puffer fish is baiacu en Espanol, isn't it?
In German it must be something like kugelfisch or kugel fisch.

suvat wrote:In German it must be something like kugelfisch or kugel fisch.

Yes, Kugelfisch.

In many translations I see them as "globefish" or "ballfish".