Pictured guide to animals that can cause envenoming and poisoning
Oral poisoning caused by the consumption of poisonous animals. Marine animals are the main cause |
| Diagnosis & Treatment | Biomedical database | ||
| Shellfish | Link | Link | |
| Marine snails
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Link | Link | |
| Echinoderms
(starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers) |
→ | Link | |
| Crustaceans | Link | Link | |
| Horseshoe crabs
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→ | Link | |
| Fish or fish roe | Link | Link (choose relevant entry) | |
| Sea turtles
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→ | Link | |
| Whales and polar mammals | → | Link | |
Parenteral envenoming caused by external injuries from venomous animals |
| In freshwater | Diagnosis & Treatment | Biomedical database | |
| Fish | Link | ||
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Sea snakes (only in Lake Taal on Luzon, Philippines, and in Lake Tegano on Rennel Island, Solomon Islands. Sometimes in river mouths and further upstream in the Indo-Pacific region) |
Link | ||
| Platypus (Australia and Tasmania) | → | Link | |
| In salt or brackish water | Diagnosis & Treatment | Biomedical database | |
| Sponges | → | Link | |
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Cnidarians (jellyfish, corals, sea anemones etc.) |
Link | Link | |
| Bristle worms
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→ | Link | |
| Cone shells
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→ | Link | |
| Octopuses | → | Link | |
| Echinoderms
(starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers) |
→ | ||
| Fish | Link | Link | |
| Sea snakes
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Link | ||
| On land | Diagnosis & Treatment | Biomedical database | |
| Scorpions | Link | Link | |
| Spiders | |
Link | Link |
| Ticks | |
→ | Link |
| Centipedes | |
→ | Link |
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Hymenopterans (bees, wasps and ants) |
Link | Link | |
| Caterpillars, moths and butterflies | → | Link | |
| Beetles | → | Link | |
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Beaded lizard and Gila monster (only in southwestern USA and Mexico) |
→ | Link | |
| Venomous snakes
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Link (choose region)
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Link (choose snake family)
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