Lagocephalus sceleratus

Silver-cheeked toadfish

Lagocephalus sceleratus,(Gmelin1789)
Lagocephalus sceleratus
(Gmelin, 1789) commonly called silver-cheeked toadfish is considered one of the “most dangerous” biological invaders of the Mediterranean Sea (Streftaris and Zenetos 2006), as a threat for native biodiversity and human health. The silver-cheeked toadfish can be lethally poisonous when consumed because it contains tetrodotoxin (TTX), a heat-stable (hence resistant to heat or cooking) water-soluble neurotoxin (Arakawa et al., 2010). This can trigger paralytic effects on both nervous and respiratory systems (Ben Souissi, J., et al., 2014).
 

Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin 1789)
Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin 1789)