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A Fish-feeding Laboratory Bioassay to Assess the Antipredatory Activity of Secondary Metabolites from the Tissues of Marine Organisms
Published on: January 11, 2015
Aquatic antagonists: lionfish stings
1Department of Dermatology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 405 W Redwood St, 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201-4388, USA.
Cutis
|August 2, 2001
Abstract:
Although lionfish can be found in all the oceans, the highest incidences of human stings appear to be in the tropics, especially in the Indo-Pacific area and Mediterranean Sea. The recent interest in tropical fish aquaria has expanded the geographic range of the stings of these animals.
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