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Reptiboy;89002 said:okk i have done plenty of research and my report is almost done, almost done. i still need to know the other name of the toxin aside from TTX, its the one for killing prey
um, Jean and I mentioned a few other names (maculotoxin and tetrodotoxin, which is what TTX is short for)-- it's often called "venom" rather than "toxin" or "poison," at least by the pedantic, because "venom" is something that's made by the animal (or in this case, the symbiotic bacteria) to be actively injected by stinging or biting.
As Roy and Jean mentioned, there is other stuff besides TTX in blue ring venom, but most of it doesn't do much to humans. Most other cephs have a venom that's harmless to human but very effective on crabs called cephalotoxin (see here: Cephalotoxin: the Crab-paralysing Agent of the Posterior Salivary Glands of Cephalopods - Nature for example) and I just noticed from searching on that that there's apparently another variant in the Eledone genus called eledosin or eledoisin -- I'm not sure which is the correct spelling. I don't know if blue rings lack cephalotoxin completely; it wasn't in Jean's list, but sometimes the names of these sorts of things aren't consistent.