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The fish belongs to the order Tetraodontidae which also includes ocean sunfish and porcupine fish. Tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin, was first isolated and named in 1909 in Japan. There are nearly 100 different species and 38 of them are found in Japan. Puffer fish is also known as fugu (in Japan), toadfish, globefish, blowfish, balloonfish, etc.
As a coastal country, puffer fish (tetrodotoxin) poisoning is quite common in Bangladesh, which sporadically involved many of the rive rain districts and so far brought considerable number of death.