Short communication Toxicities and distribution of tetrodotoxin in the tissues of puÄer fish found in the coast of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico E.J. Nunez-Vazquez a , M. Yotsu-Yamashita b , A.P. Sierra-

Toxicities and tetrodotoxin distribution in tissues of five puAer fish species commonly found in the littoral of Baja California Peninsula, Mexico (Sphoeroides annulatus, S. lobatus, S. lispus, Arothron meleagris and Canthigaster punctatissima) were evaluated by bioassay and HPLC. The toxicities estimated as tetrodotoxin-equivalents of all species were more than 0.42 mg/g in at least one of the tissues tested, and the highest was found in S. lispus liver (130 mg/g). # 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.