Apodes 



Muraena he lena 

 Angwllla spp. 

 Conger spp. 



blood, poison called lohthyotoxine 



In addition a large number of tetraodonts are cited, and several species 

 are listed as containing protamine* 



Another study of poisonous fishes of the South Seas is that made at 

 Saipan by Dr. Takashi Yasukawa of the Contagious Disease Research Station.* 

 He concluded that the toxic agent is not bacterial. His report gives only the 

 local names of the species but the present author has added the scientific 

 names and the standard [common] names used in this report, as follows : 



Local name 



akamasu 

 oinachi 

 ^iraaji 

 unagi (utsubo) 



Page 7 okamasu 

 omebaru 

 kuchilcu 

 fugu 



Scientific name 



Lutjanus s pp. 

 Aprion vires pens 

 Caranx meltunpygus 

 Gymno thorax spp, 

 Sphyraena picuda 

 Serrajius^ spp. 

 Ctenochaetus strigosus 

 Tetraodon spp. 



Japanese common name 



akadokutanmii, etc. 



aona 



dokuhiraaji 



dokuutsubo, etc. 



dokukamasu 



hata 



sazanamihagi 



fugu 



Another report was made by Ryuichi Matsuo, Medical Officer of the South 

 Seas Office, of a study of poisonous fish at Jaluit in 1934.** Of 180 species 

 found at that atoll. En listed 36 as poisonous, recording them by their 

 native names. The present author has supplied the scientific names and 

 Japanese common names for these species as follo>ws : 



Native name 



1. ael 



2. aujbak 



5. deb 

 4. ho 



S« hoi eke tern bub 



6. ikbij 



7. ikuit 



8. illinno 



9. Jab 



10. jalia 



11. Jarenrod 



12. Jaire elik 



Scientific name 



Hepatus olivaceus 

 SynoduB variegatus 

 Gymno thorax sp. 

 Pterois voli'tene 

 Balistes sp. 

 Caranx le'ss'onii 

 Eplnephelus leopardus 

 Serranus micTbdon 

 Lut Janus' sp. 

 Lethrinus miniatus 

 Lut Janus sp. 



Japanese name 



montsukihagi 



akaeso 



a kind of utsubo 



minokasago 



a kind of mongarahagi 



niramihiraajl 



hlodoshihata 



iw&hata 



f ue doku ta rumi 



ki ts unekuohibi 



a kind of fuedai 



a kind of hata 



♦Yasukawa, Ibikashi : Report of an Investigation of Poisonous Fish of 

 the South Seas , South Seas Office, 1934. Mimeographed. 



**Matsuo, Ryuichi, Report of an Investigation of Poisonous Fishes at 

 Jaluit I ., in Collected Medical Reports on Endemic Diseases of the South Sea 

 Islands . Second Edition, p. 309-326, July 1934. Published by the South Seas 

 Office. 



