Review Article
Tetrodotoxin Poisoning Due to Pufferfish and Gastropods, and Their Intoxication Mechanism
Table 4
TTX-bearing gastropods and food poisoning cases due to them in Japan.
| | Name of gastropod | Poisoning Year | Place | Number of patient | Number of death | Predatory habit |
| | Ivory shell, Babylonia japonica | 1957, Jun. | Niigata | 5 | 3 | Necrophagous | | Trumpet shell, Charonia sauliae | 1979, Dec. | Shizuoka | 1 | 0 | Carnivorous | | 1982, Dec. | Wakayama | 1 | 0 | Carnivorous | | 1987, Jan. | Miyazaki | 2 | 0 | Carnivorous | | “Kinshibai,” Alectricon glans | 2007, Jul. | Nagasaki | 1 | 0 | Necrophagous | | 2008, Jul. | Kumamoto | 1 | 0 | Necrophagous |
| | Frog shell, Tutufa lissostoma | | Shizuoka | | | Carnivorous | | “Hanamushirogai,” Zeuxis siquijorensis | | Shizuoka | | | Necrophagous | | “Araregai,” Niotha clathrata | | Shizuoka | | | Necrophagous |
| | Total | | | 11 | 3 | |
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