n :  a potent nonprotein neurotoxin C₁₀H₁₇N₇O₄·2HCl that originates in dinoflagellates of the genus Gonyaulax found in red tides and that sometimes occurs in and renders toxic normally edible mollusks which feed on them .
 
 
 
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