Fishes . ms, whilemembers of other groups {Batradioididcc) are under suspicion inthis regard. The alkaloids produce a disease known as cigua-tera, characterized by paralysis and gastric cases of ciguatera with men, as well as with loweranimals, may end fatally in a short time. The flesh of the filefishes {Stephanolepis tomentosits), which Adaptations of Fishes 55 the writer has tested, is very meager and bitter, having a de-cidedly offensive taste. It is suspected, probably justly, of be-ing poisonous. In the globefishes the flesh is always more orless poisonous, that of Te
Fishes . ms, whilemembers of other groups {Batradioididcc) are under suspicion inthis regard. The alkaloids produce a disease known as cigua-tera, characterized by paralysis and gastric cases of ciguatera with men, as well as with loweranimals, may end fatally in a short time. The flesh of the filefishes {Stephanolepis tomentosits), which Adaptations of Fishes 55 the writer has tested, is very meager and bitter, having a de-cidedly offensive taste. It is suspected, probably justly, of be-ing poisonous. In the globefishes the flesh is always more orless poisonous, that of Tetraodon Iiispidus, called muki-muki,or death-fish, in Hawaii, is reputed as excessively so. The poi-sonous fishes have been lately studied in detail by Dr. JacquesPellegrin, of the Museum dHistoire Naturelle at Paris. Heshows that any species of fish may be poisonous under certaincircumstances, that under certain conditions certain species arepoisonous, and that certain kinds are poisonous more or less at. Fig. 39.—Tetraodun 77icleagris (Lac^pede). Riu Kiu Islands. all times. The following account is condensed from Dr. Pelle-grins observations. The flesh of fishes soon undergoes decomposition in hotclimates. The consumption of decayed fish may produceserious disorders, usually with symptoms of diarrhoea or erup-tion of the skin. There is in this case no specific poison, butthe formation of leucomaines through the influence of may take place with other kinds of flesh, and is known asbotolism, or allantiasis. For this disease, as produced by theflesh of fishes. Dr. Pellegrin suggests the name of is especially severe in certain very oily fishes, as the ttmny,the ancho^y, or the salmon. The flesh of these and other fishesoccasionally produces similar disorders through mere indiges-tion. In this case the flesh undergoes decay in the stomach. 56 Adaptations of Fishes In certain groups (wrasse-fishes, parrot-fishes, etc.) in thetropics, individual fishes
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