Full definition of ichthyosarcotoxin
Noun
- 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 , 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 , 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, The other ichthyosarcotoxins that have been identified in ciguatoxic fish, scaritoxin and maitotoxin, lag behind ciguatoxin in physicochemical characterization.
