ichthyosarcotoxic fishes

ichthyosarcotoxic fishes
those fishes that contain a poison in the flesh (including musculature, viscera, skin, or slime) which when ingested by humans will produce a biotoxication. The toxins are oral poisons believed to be small molecular structures and are generally not destroyed by heat or gastric juices

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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  • ichthyosarcotoxism — poisoning from consumption of flesh including musculature, viscera, skin, slime of ichthyosarcotoxic fishes …   Dictionary of ichthyology

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