Fish venoms , poisnous fish , venom apperatus

of fish

1.What is the substance secreted by poison glands in some

fishes?
Answer: Venomous or poisonous material.

2.Where can poison glands occur in fishes?

Answer: In cartilaginous fishes and bony fishes.

3.In cartilaginous fishes, where do poison glands occur?

Answer: In the skin.

4.In bony fishes, where are poison glands associated?

Answer: With spines on the fins, tail, and gill cover.

5.What method of secretion do fish poison glands use?

Answer: Holocrine method.

6.Define the holocrine method of secretion.

Answer: Plasma membrane ruptures, releasing cell cytoplasm
into the gland lumen.

7.How do venomglands function in fishes?

Answer: As protective devices.

8.What is the purpose of the venom secreted by these glands in

bottom dwelling fishes?
Answer: It kills bacteria trying to invade their skin.

9.What field of study covers the glands and secretions of fishes?

Answer: Icthyotoxism.

10.What is icthyosarcotoxism related to?

Answer: Intoxication from eating poisonous fishes.

11.What is icthyoacanthotoxism related to?

Answer: Being stung by venomous fishes.

12.What makes fishes become poisonous?

Answer: The presence of poison glands.
13.Are the toxins in poisonous fishes destroyed by the digestive
system of animals that eat them?
Answer: No.

14.Name a family of fishes that are very poisonous as food.

Answer: Porcupine Fishes (Family Diodontidae).

15.Why is it difficult to extract edible flesh from Box fishes?

Answer: Their head and body are encased in a bony "box."

16.What can happen if you eat the brain of a Goatfish?

Answer: It may lead to mental paralysis.

17.What kind of glands are associated with the spines in some

fishes, making them doubly dangerous?
Answer: Venom-glands.

18.Name an example of a flat, kite-shaped fish with a long tail

and barbed spines.
Answer: Stingrays.
19.What should be removed from Stingrays before handling
them?
Answer: The tail with the spine.

20.How many barbels or "cats' whiskers" do Catfishes generally

have?
Answer: Six to eight.

21.Do Catfishes have scales?

Answer: No.

22.What fins in Catfishes are generally armed with venomous

serrations?
Answer: Dorsal and pectoral fins.

23.Why are Stonefishes called so?

Answer: They resemble blocks of eroded rock or weathered
coral.

24.How do Stonefishes behave when approached in the water?

Answer: They lie quite still and

25.What distinguishes the Butterfly Cod or Red Fire fish?

Answer: Streamer-like fin-rays and extending membranes.

26.What happens when you touch the needle-like dorsal spines

of the Butterfly Cod?
Answer: It causes a painful wound.