Toxicological studies on puffer fishes, Lagocephalus sceleratus and Amblyrhynchotes hypeslogenion in Suez Gulf, Red Sea, Egypt.

Toxicological studies on puffer fishes, Lagocephalus sceleratus and
Amblyrhynchotes hypeslogenion in Suez Gulf, Red Sea, Egypt.
Abd allah El sayed Ali1
, Mohamed Nasr Eldin Gomaa2
and Hanan Mohamed
Othman*1

1: Suez Canal University, Faculty of science, Department of Marine Science.
2: National Research center, Cairo.
*Corresponding author: [email protected]
Received 1st December 2010, Accepted 5th May 2011
Abstract
Thirty five samples of puffer fish Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gemelin, 1789) and twenty two samples of
Amblyrhynchotes hypeslogenion (Blecker, 1852) were collected from El Attka Port, Suez Gulf, Red Sea from
September 2007 to May 2008, using mouse bioassay technique. The toxicity of L. sceleratus showed the highest
value for ovaries (666.9 MU/g), intestine (555.7 MU/g) and liver (573.3 MU/g). The muscle and skin had the lowest
toxicity (170 and 153.4 MU/g respectively). The second species A. hypeslogenion showed toxicity values: 270,
230.4, and 220 MU/g for skin, liver and muscles respectively.
Keywords: Tetrodotoxin, puffer fish, toxicity of fishes, Red Sea fishes, Lagocephalus sceleratus.