| distribution of tetrodotoxin in pufferfish collected from coastal waters of sihanouk ville, cambodia. | in cambodia, fatal food poisonings associated with the consumption of pufferfish have occurred for decades, but the causative species or toxins have never been documented. herein, we investigated the toxicity of three pufferfish species of the genus lagocephalus collected from the coastal waters of sihanouk ville, one of the main regions where poisonings have occurred. l. wheeleri and l. spadiceus were non-toxic, whereas l. lunaris was toxic and all of its body tissues exhibited toxicity levels ... | 2008 | 19029789 |