MARINE TOXINS AND VENOMOUS AND POISONOUS MARINE ANIMALS
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blasers or tambores. These names stem from the fish’s ability to inflate
itself by taking in large quantities of air or water. Of the approximately 100 species of these fishes, over 50 have been involved in poisonings to man or are known to be toxic under certain conditions. Among
the most often incriminated are those listed in Table VI.
TABLE VI. SOME FISHES RESPONSIBLE FOR TETRAODON POISONING
S p e c k
Distribution.
Diodontidae, porcupinefishes, 10 species
Diodon holocanthue L.
.
D. hyetrizL. .
Molidae, sunfishes, 1 species
Molamola (L.)
.
Tetraodontidae, puffers, 40 species
Canthigaster bennetti (Bleeker) .
Sphoeroidee alboplumbeua (Richardson)
S. annulahe (Jenyns)
.
S.$orealk (Cope) .
S. hrniltoni (Richardson) .
S. honckeni (Bloch) .
S. lobatue (Steindachner) .
S. lunark (Bloch) .
S . maculatua (Bloch) .
S. oblongue (Bloch) .
S. rubripes (Temminck and Schlegel)
8. ecekratus (Forster)
.
S . epengleri (Bloch) .
S . teetwlineue (L.) .
S. vermiculark (Temminck and Schegel)
Tetraodon basilevskianue (Baselewsky)
T . cutcutia (Hamilton)
.
East Indies, Japan, tropical Pacific, Hawaii
Red Sea, Indo-Pacific, Japan,
Philippine Islands, Oceania
Japan, Australia
East Indies, Philippine Islands,
Australia, south Pacific
Japan
Baja California
India, Philippine Islands, New
Hebrides, Hawaii
Cape Africa, Australia, Oceania
Cape Africa, east coast of Africa,
China
Baje, California
Red Sea, east coast of Africa,
Indo-Pacific,
China,
Japan,
Australia
South Africa, Indian Ocean,
Atlantic coast of North America
Indo-Pacific,
China,
Japan,
Philippines, Australia, tropical
Pacific
Viet-Nam, Japan, Australia
East coast of Africa, Indo-Pacific,
Japan,
Australia,
Oceania,
Caribbean Sea
Florida, Caribbean, Brazil
Caribbean, Brazil
China, Korea, Japan
East China Sea, Japan
Gulf of Mexico, Baja California