{"id":16400,"date":"2023-10-28T01:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16400"},"modified":"2025-04-04T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:30:09","slug":"leopard-toby-puffer-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/leopard-toby-puffer-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard Toby Puffer Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Leopard Toby Puffer Fish<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0deepwater reef species, which lives in deep water caves and reef slopes at an average depth of 50 to 100 meters.<\/li>\n<li>Scientific name: Canthigaster leoparda<\/li>\n<li>Appearance: It is characterized by clusters of black dots along the flanks of its pale body.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known\u00a0as blowfish.<\/li>\n<li>Habitat:\u00a0It is believed to have a thriving\u00a0population in their deep-sea habitat.<\/li>\n<li>Puffer fish in general are known for their unique morphological appearance and features, especially their\u00a0defensive mechanism of inflating and deflating.<\/li>\n<li>These small sea creatures pump water into their stomachs until they turn into the shape of a ball, larger than their normal body size, to evade predators.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution: It is usually found in the waters of the Philippines, Indonesia, Guam and Micronesia.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Least Concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is IUCN?<\/h3>\n<p>The International Union for Conservation of Nature is a global organization dedicated to the conservation of nature and the sustainable use of natural resources. It was established in 1948 and is headquartered in Gland, Switzerland. It is a unique organization that brings together governments, NGOs, scientists, and other stakeholders to address environmental and conservation challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/offbeat\/super-rare-leopard-toby-puffer-fish-spotted-near-australia-4511403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Super Rare&#8221; Leopard Toby Puffer Fish Spotted Near Australia<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leopard Toby Puffer Fish  is a deepwater reef species, which lives in deep water caves and reef slopes at an average depth of 50 to 100 meters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}