ichthyosarcotoxin

plural ichthyosarcotoxins

1. Any poisonous substance found in fish that is not limited to the roe or to the blood.

   The toxin involved is called tetrodotoxin and was originally believed to be a true ichthyosarcotoxin produced by the fish itself.

   1991, Farid E. Ahmed, Seafood Safety, page 100

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   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.

   1970, United States Dept. of Defense, Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World, page 810

   The other ichthyosarcotoxins that have been identified in ciguatoxic fish, scaritoxin and maitotoxin, lag behind ciguatoxin in physicochemical characterization.

   2012, David L. Spector, Dinoflagellates, →ISBN, page 228