List of poisonous animals



Poisonous animals
This list is a partial list of animals that are poisonous to humans (and other animals), or put another way, their flesh is toxic if consumed, or in some cases touched:

Birds
Pitohui
Blue-capped ifrit
Little shrikethrush
Spur-winged goose (diet-dependent)
Common quail (diet-dependent)

Snakes
Rhabdophis keelback snakes
Garter snake (diet-dependent, when feeding on Pacific newts)

Frogs and toads
American toad
Asiatic toad
Cane toad
Colorado River toad
Common toad
Corroboree frog
European green toad
Fowler's toad
Mantella
Poison dart frog

Salamanders

Pacific newts

Fish
Tetraodontidae (Blowfish, Pufferfish)
Greenland shark
Barracuda (age and diet dependent)

Cephalopods
Blue-ringed octopus
Pfeffer's flamboyant cuttlefish

Insects 
 Blister beetle
 Birdwings
 Milkweed butterfly
 Battus (butterfly)
 Diamphidia
 Monarch (butterfly)

Cnidarians 
 Some members of the genus palythoa produce the highly toxic palytoxin
 Rhodactis species

See also 
 Poisonous amphibians
 Toxic birds
 List of venomous animals
 List of poisonous plants
 List of poisonous fungi

References 

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