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Oral poisoning caused by the consumption of poisonous animals. Marine animals are the main cause

  Diagnosis & Treatment Biomedical database
Shellfish Link Link
Marine snails
Link Link
Echinoderms
(starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers)
Link Link
Crustaceans Link Link
Horseshoe crabs
Link Link
Fish or fish roe

Link

Link (choose relevant entry)
Sea turtles
  Link Link
Whales and polar mammals   Link Link

Parenteral envenoming caused by external injuries from venomous animals

In freshwater Diagnosis & Treatment Biomedical database
Fish Link

Catfishes,

Stingrays

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

Enhydrina shistosa,

Hydrophis semperi,

various genera

Platypus (Australia and Tasmania)     Link
In salt or brackish water Diagnosis & Treatment Biomedical database
Sponges  Link Link

Cnidarians 

(jellyfish, corals, sea anemones etc.)

Link Link
Bristle worms
 Link Link
Cone shells
Link Link
Octopuses Link Link
Echinoderms
(starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers)

Link

Link

Sea urchins,

Crown-of-thorns starfish

Fish Link Link
Sea snakes
Link

Link

On land Diagnosis & Treatment Biomedical database
Scorpions Link Link
Spiders   Link Link
Ticks   Link Link
Centipedes   Link Link

Hymenopterans

(bees, wasps and ants)

Link Link
Caterpillars, moths and butterflies Link Link
Beetles Link Link

Beaded lizard and Gila monster 

(only in southwestern USA and Mexico)

Link Link
Venomous snakes
Link (choose region) Link (choose region and snake family)