An Illustrated and Cross-Referenced Glossary of Malacological and Conchological Terms

by Paul S. Mikkelsen

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CEPHALOTOXIN		A toxin produced by the posterior salivary glands of CEPHALOPODS, used by OCTOPUS to paralyze crabs. See: Ghiretti, F. 1959. Cephalotoxin: the crab-paralysing agent of the posterior salivary glands of cephalopods. Nature 183:1192-1193 (25 April 1959).

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