Poisonous fish: Types and images

Undoubtedly in the first place of the most poisonous fish is the Roca fish or stone fish, including several Synanceia gender species. They are capable of camouflage between stones and reefs Thanks to its mooring, greenish and even reddish coloration, which makes them more dangerous against their accidental encounter.

Their danger is because they have poisonous glands that flow into dorsal, anal and pelvic thorns. By introducing the thorns into the victim, the poison is injected generating deep pain and neurotoxic effects: shock, paralysis and death of the tissue. Not being treated immediately could be deadly for the human being.

This type of fish belongs to the group of bone fish: characteristics and examples, here you can know them better.

There is More than 120 Globe fish speciesall of them belong to the Tetraodontidae family. The peculiarity of the balloon fish is that when it is in danger it is capable of swallowexposing the Sharp spines that cover your body and hindered your capture. However, it has another even more dangerous defense mechanism: its gonads, liver and intestine contain a Neurotoxic poison called tetrodotoxin. In front of the intake of the poison, the victim will suffer a muscular paralysis that will culminate in cardiac arrest and death. The symptoms manifest between 10 minutes and 3 hours, and a single balloon fish could kill up to 30 human beings.

We recommend you read more about this curious animal in these other articles on the Globe fish: characteristics, habitat and what do you eat and the balloon fish is poisonous?

The common whip stripe has two pectoral fins that bind forming an album, its body is flattened and usually finds it by moving on the sandy background. The tail, which would be the flow fin, usually has the same length as the body and presents a spear -shaped sting which can reach up to 40 cm long. In turn, the same sting is sawn and they flow into it poison glandsso in front of a bite produces deep wounds, tears and inject poison.

When they are in the seabed, people often step on them accidentally, the poison can cause pain, necrosis, nausea, respiratory and circulatory problems, and can even be lethal.

The stripes are cartilaginous fish, so we recommend that you read this other article if you want to know these stripes and other cartilaginous fish: characteristics and examples.

His extravagant appearance indicates something, and in this case it is danger! The lionfish, also called Cebra fish or peacock fishhas Long and fine thorns that resemble feathersof which the dorsals, pelvics and anals hide a poison inside.

He León fish poison It is not usually fatal for human being, but causing immense pain, nausea and respiratory problems. The amount of poison that injects the lionfish will depend on the aggressiveness of its attack, the stronger or more time is kept injected, the more severe the symptoms will be.

It’s called scorpion fish, Spider fish or viper fish to any of the four species of the genus Tachinus. The poison glands They flow into the spines of the first dorsal fin and on the sting Located on the operculum, releasing a toxin by penetrating the victim’s tegument.

Like most poisonous fish, toxin is used as a defense mechanism for possible predators, so the attack on humans is usually accidental. In front of the bite of a scorpion fish, the first thing you will feel will be a deep pain, followed by itching, edema and color change. While the most serious symptoms are dizziness, headaches, nausea, vomiting, cramps and hypotension. There are very few cases in which the bite becomes deadly and is probably due to the fact that the penetration of the poison is intravascular.

You can know much more about this species reading this other post about the spider fish: what it is, characteristics and what to do with its bite.

Also called coral cat fishit has an eel like and sensory appendices such as mustaches on its face.

It has two dorsal fins of which the first, like the pectoral fins, has a thorny radius where the poison glands flow. In total they are 3 poisonous spinesbut they do not see themselves with the naked eye since they are hidden below the tegument.

Their wounds cause strong pains and, although they are fish of quiet behaviors, they could cause the death of a person who tries to capture them.

We have described the 6 of the most poisonous fish that exist, but we know that there are many more and that there are even many others without discovering. Next, we leave you another 6 species of poisonous fish:

• Rabbit fish (Siganus luridus and Siganus rivulatus)
• Yellow chest fish (Ostracion cubicus)
• Blue surgeon (Paracanthurus hepatus)
• Devil’s scorpion fish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus)
• Cornudo chest fish or long -horrific cow fish (Cornuta Lacoria)
• Minor scorpion fish (Scorpaenodes minor)

Now that you have discovered all these species of poisonous fish, we encourage you to continue investigating poisonous octopuses and what are the most poisonous animals in the world.

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