Tetrodotoxin
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Tetrodotoxin is a potent neurotoxin. Its name derives from Tetraodontiformes, an order that includes pufferfish, porcupinefish, ocean sunfish, and triggerfish; several of these species carry the toxin
A Chinese pharmacopoeia, 1930.
Tetraodontidae
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Tetraodontidae is a family of marine and freshwater fish in the order Tetraodontiformes. The family includes many familiar species variously called pufferfishes, puffers, balloonfishes, blowfishes, bl
Tetrodotoxin
…Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent neurotoxin. Its name derives from Tetraodontiformes, an order that includes pufferfish, porcupinefish, ocean sunfish, and triggerfish; several of these species carry the toxin. Although tetrodotoxin was discovered in these fish, it is…
Tetraodon hispidus
Prickly puffer (Ephippion guttifer) showing the four teeth eponymous of the family Tetraodontidae
Arothron stellatus
Canthigaster valentini