Table 2. — Thiaminase presence in marine animals — Continued. 



Common name 



Part of fish 

 analyzed 



Si icntific name 



Source 



Thiaminase 



presence 

 or absence 1 



Reference 



Sculpin Muscle 



Shrimp (brine) Whole 



Skate Muscle 



Skate Viscera 



Spot Whole 



Squid Whole 



Starfish Whole 



Tautog (blackfish) Viscera 



White trout Whole 



Whiting Whole 



Witch flounder Muscle 



Witch flounder Viscera 



Yellow tails Whole 



Myoxocephalus 



octodeci mspinosus Atlantic Ocean 



.1 Hernia salina Lab grown 



Raja senta Atlantic Ocean 



Raja senta Atlantic Ocean 



Leiostomits xanthurus Gulf of Mexico 



Loligo brevis Gulf of Mexico 



Asterias vulgaris Atlantic Ocean 



Tautoga onitis Long Island 



Sound 



Cynoscion ave.no/rius Gulf of Mexico 



Merluccius bilinearis Atlantic Ocean 



Glyptocephalus cyvoglossus .... Atlantic Ocean 



Glyptoeephalus cynoglossus .... Atlantic Ocean 



Limanda ferruginea Atlantic Ocean 



11 



( 2 ) 

 11 

 11 



9, ( 2 ) 



9 

 11 



8 



9 



3 

 11 

 11 



3, 11 



1 + indicates that thiaminase was found to be present; — indicates that it was not found to be present. 



2 Unpublished data. Analyses made at National Marine Fisheries Service, Ann Arbor Technological Laboratory, Ann 

 Arbor, Mich. (Analyses performed by the chemical method of: Gnaedinger, 1965.) 



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