’Toxic Invader’ Silver Cheeked Toadfish Caught In Maltese Waters
Environment
Taking to social media, marine biologist Alan Deidunshared photos of a ‘spreading toxic invader’ – the silver cheeked toadfish.
The fish were caught in Maltese waters by citizen scientist Theoclisto Vella and explained that the species was first recorded within Maltese waters in 2015.
It is reportedly responsible for a number of deaths each year ‘courtesy of the potent TTX toxin it holds throughout its tissue.’
It is a species native to the Indo-Pacific region and even cooking them is lethal!
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