ichthyosarcotoxin
English
Etymology
ichthyo- + sarco- + toxin
Noun
ichthyosarcotoxin (plural ichthyosarcotoxins)
- Any poisonous substance found in fish that is not limited to the roe or to the blood.
- 1970, United States Dept. of Defense, Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World, page 810:
- Ichthyosarcotoxin may also be found in the roe of fishes, but it is found in other Parts of the fish as well, whereas ichthyootoxin is limited to the roe.
- 1991, Farid E. Ahmed, Seafood Safety, page 100:
- The toxin involved is called tetrodotoxin and was originally believed to be a true ichthyosarcotoxin produced by the fish itself.
- 2012, David L. Spector, Dinoflagellates, →ISBN, page 228:
- The other ichthyosarcotoxins that have been identified in ciguatoxic fish, scaritoxin and maitotoxin, lag behind ciguatoxin in physicochemical characterization.
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Related terms
- ichthyootoxin
- ichthyohemotoxin