ichthyotoxicology

English

Etymology

From ichthyo- +‎ toxicology.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

ichthyotoxicology (uncountable)

1. (rare) The study of toxins found in fish; the toxicology of fish.
   • 1965, Bruce W. Halstead, Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World: Invertebrates:

     One of the earliest reports on experimental ichthyotoxicology is by an unknown Japanese investigator and appeared in 1825 in the publication Toyen Shosetsu, in which the author related how he fed poisonous puffers to cats and dogs.

   • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 117:

     “Last scene in From Russia with Love, one of the great moments in ichthyotoxicology. British agent double-oh-seven utterly helpless, paralyzed and unconscious after a minute wound from a hidden knife.”

   • 1986, Ecology Abstracts - Volume 12, Issues 1-6150, page 144:

     Therefore it was just the ichthyotoxicology to which the attention was focused in the framework of the first phase of aquatic toxicology development in Czechoslovakia. Recently the content of mercury is being evaluated in the other components of aquatic ecosystem.

   • 1997, Jane Goldman, The X-Files Book of the Unexplained - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 189:

     Amongst his haul, Davis found a number of toxic and irritant ingredients. But it wasn't until his Mulderesque quest led him to the department of ichthyotoxicology that he learned the significance of an ingredient that turned out to be the vital one: the puffer fish.

   • 2002, Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science - Volume 8, page 84:

     For the scarce literature, concerning mainly acute toxicity, no hypotheses could be suggested for the effect of heavy metals on fish and the reasons and nature of this phenomenon. The knowledge of metal interactions, however, is of great theoretical and practical importance. That is why, investigations like these are essential and necessary for ichthyotoxicology.

   • 2008, EV Sukharenko, RА Novitsky, VS Nedzvetsky, “Using biomarkers of ground fish brain for pollution assessment of the Kerch strait (the Black sea)”, in Regulatory Mechanisms In Biosystems, volume 3, number 2:

     Fish were sampled at the shallow part of the Kerch Strait, where the shipwreck brought to ecological emergency in 2007. There were used ichthyotoxicology, biochemistry and immunochemistry methods for the research of fish populations