First Toxicological Analysis of the Pufferfish Sphoeroides pachygaster Collected in Italian Waters (Strait of Sicily): Role of Citizens Science in Monitoring Toxic Marine Species [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Pufferfish (Tetraodontidae) inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea may represent an emerging public health risk due to the possible accumulation of marine neurotoxins such as tetrodotoxin (TTXs) and saxitoxin (STXs) in their tissues.
Chiara Malloggi +6 more
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Additional Record of Sphoeroides pachygaster (Tetraodontidae) in the Aegean Sea (Fethiye, Turkey)
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Journal of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, 2020 Sphoeroides pachygaster has been well-known in the Mediterranean since the first recorded from Balearic Islands in 1979, and then, it has rapidly reached to eastern Levantine.
İnci TÜNEY KIZILKAYA, Okan AKYOL
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of exotic fish species in the Mediterranean Sea: Over a century of invasion reconstructed. [PDF]
Glob Chang Biol, 2022 Between 1896 and 2020, a total of 188 fish species entered the Mediterranean Sea, mainly from the Suez Canal, but also from other human‐mediated vectors and from the Straits of Gibraltar. Cumulative occurrences, reported in 264 distribution maps, documented this phenomenon, which increased steeply after 1990, without a sign of saturation.
Azzurro E, Smeraldo S, D'Amen M.
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Difference in Uptake of Tetrodotoxin and Saxitoxins into Liver Tissue Slices among Pufferfish, Boxfish and Porcupinefish [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2018 Although pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae contain high levels of tetrodotoxin (TTX) mainly in the liver, some species of pufferfish, boxfish of the family Ostraciidae, and porcupinefish of the family Diodontidae do not.
Yuji Nagashima +6 more
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On the Occurrence of the Blunthead Puffer, Sphoeroides pachygaster (Osteichthyes: Tetraodontidae), in the Strait of Messina (Central Mediterranean) [PDF]
Journal of Marine Sciences, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 The record of Sphoeroides pachygaster reveals the presence of the species in the Strait of Messina (Central Mediterranean Sea). The adult species was captured on 15 march 2012. It measured 280 mm of total length and weighed 461.5 g. Morphometric measurements (mm) and meristic counts were reported in this paper.
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Automated Patch Clamp for the Detection of Tetrodotoxin in Pufferfish Samples [PDF]
Marine DrugsTetrodotoxin (TTX) is a marine toxin responsible for many intoxications around the world. Its presence in some pufferfish species and, as recently reported, in shellfish, poses a serious health concern. Although TTX is not routinely monitored, there is a
Mònica Campàs +5 more
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Molecular identification, early development and distribution of larval blunthead puffer Sphoeroides pachygaster (Teleostei: Tetraodontidae) off southeastern Brazil [PDF]
Neotropical IchthyologyWe studied the early larval stages (preflexion and flexion) of the pufferfish Sphoeroides pachygaster based on ichthyoplankton samples collected off the southeastern coast of Brazil.
Henrique Grande +9 more
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Aquatic Sciences and Engineering, 2021 The blunthead puffer, Sphoeroides pachygaster was first recorded in Algerian waters in 2009 from Annaba Gulf (Western Mediterranean) caught by a trawler at 150 m depth. Since then the records show there been no further observations in Algerian waters. In
Kais Boumediene Hussein +2 more
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Fishes that rule the world: circumtropical distributions revisited
Fish and Fisheries, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 664-679, September 2016., 2016 Abstract Briggs () published the first checklist of circumtropical fishes with 107 species. This work served for a half century as the most comprehensive checklist of globally distributed fishes, but the intervening years witnessed many discoveries, and molecular data have changed the way we evaluate species.
Michelle R Gaither +3 more
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Journal of Marine Sciences, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 The relationships between the abundance of demersal resources, environmental variables, and fishing pressure in the north‐western Ionian Sea in the last two decades were evaluated. Data on the density collected during seventeen trawl surveys carried out from 1985 to 2005 were used.
G. D’Onghia +8 more
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