Hapalochlaena maculosa

Flow Diagram for Isolation of Tetrodotoxin from the Blue Ring Octopus Hapalochlaena maculosa (23)... 

Sheumack, D. D., Howden, M. E. H., Spence, I. and Quinn, R. J. 1978. Maculotoxin a neurotoxin from the venom glands of the octopus Hapalochlaena maculosa identified as tetrodotoxin. Science 199, 188-189... 

Hapalochlaena Maculosa Common Name(s) Southern Blue Ring Octopus... 

Walker DG. Survival after severe envenomation by the blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa). Med J Austral 2 663-665, 1983. 

Sheumack, D.D., Howden, M.E.H., and Spence, I. 1984. Occurrence of a tetrodotoxi-like compound in the eggs of the venomous blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena maculosa. Toxicon 2, 811-812. 

Sheumack, D.D., M.E.H. Howden, and I. Spence Occurrence of a Tetrodotoxin-Like Compound in the Eggs of the Venomous Blue-ringed Octopus Hapalochlaena maculosa). Toxicon 22, 811 (1984). 

Gage, P.W. and Dulhunty A.F. (1973) Effects of toxin from the blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa), in Marine Pharmacognosy Action of Marine Biotoxins at the Cellular Level (eds D.F. Marin and G. M. Padilla), Academic Press, New York, London, pp. 85—106. 

Yotsu-Yamashita, M., Mebs, D., and Flaschenberger, W. (2007) Distribution of tetrodotoxin in the body of the bhie-ringged octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa). Toxicon, 49, 410-412. 

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