List of poisonous animals

This article is about animals poisonous on contact or when ingested. For animals that inject venom, see list of venomous animals.

The following is a list of poisonous animals. Poisonous animals, which poison their victims on contact or when they are ingested, are distinct from venomous animals, which inject their toxins into their prey.

The hooded pitohui. The neurotoxin homobatrachotoxin on the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling on contact.

Poisonous animals

This list is a partial list of animals that are poisonous to humans and other animals in that their flesh is toxic if consumed, or in some cases if they are touched:

Birds

• Pitohui
• Blue-capped ifrit
• Shrikethrushes
• 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
  

  The bright colors of poison dart frogs warn predators of their toxicity.

Salamanders

Most birds dislike the taste of monarch butterflies; they contain toxins from poisonous milkweed, ingested as caterpillars

• Pacific newts or Western newts

Fish

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

Cephalopods

• Blue-ringed octopus
• Pfeffer's flamboyant cuttlefish

Insects

• Blister beetle
• Diamphidia
• Cinnabar moth
• Certain tiger moths (Erebidae)
• Birdwings
• Milkweed butterflies (include Monarch butterfly)
• Battus (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