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This puffer is an olive green color above and is marked with pearly 

 or bluish white spots. This fish varies widely in color; the belly may be 

 either a plain white, marked with yellow, or marked with parallel stripes 

 of light olive color. It will reach a length of about fourteen inches. 



This puffer is probably the most common member of its family. It 

 occurs in fish ponds, in brackish water, and in fresh water ponds. This 

 fish has the habit of pufi&ng up when taken from the water and will lie 

 or float belly up until it is returned to the water or until danger has 

 passed; then it will collapse and swim away. 



This fish was regarded as poisonous in old Hawaii and was named 

 "make-make" or "deadly death." It was reported to be the most poisonous 

 of all fishes and its galls used to poison arrows. These statements have 

 not been verified. It is also reported that this fish is relished by the Chinese, 

 and is used by them in making a thin soup. 



This fish is distributed from the Red Sea, Zanzibar, Mozambique, 

 Natal, along the coast of India, Ceylon, through the East Indies, Melanesia, 

 Micronesia, and Polynesia as far as the Hawaiian Islands. 



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This puffer is black in color above, grayish-white beneath, and is 

 covered with small, white spots and prominences. It reaches a length of 

 at least thirteen inches. 



This species is distributed throughout Micronesia, Polynesia, and the 

 Hawaiian Archipelago. 



