Shark repellent compounds isolated from the defense secretion of the Pacific sole, Pardachirus pavoninus. Series of ichthyotoxic and hemolytic steroid amine glycosides; pavoninin-5 is the most abundant. Isoln, structure determn and evaluation of pavoninins 1-6 as shark repellents: K. Tachibana et al., Science 226, 703 (1984); and 13C- and 1H-NMR studies: eidem, Tetrahedron 41, 1027 (1985). Synthesis of pavoninin-1: Y. Ohnishi, K. Tachibana, Bioorg. Med. Chem. 5, 2251 (1997); of pavoninin-4: J. R. Williams et al., J. Org. Chem. 70, 10732 (2005).