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).
