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Rewording your statement doesn't make it any more valid. A poison works by TRAVELING through the system and interrupting the natural state of the body. This is not instant because it CANNOT be instant, things take time to move throughout the body. At best you'll see effects at the point of injection or wherever it entered, but you will not under any circumstance see immediate reactions anywhere else.While poison technically doesn't kill that fast out of the known poisons, there are plenty that have effects that will have effects as instant as this scene and some of these leave the victim in a state that might as well be counted dead... And that's in small doses.
Firstly, animals don't just blast you with huge amounts of poison. No venomous creature does this because they try to conserve their toxins as much as possible, it's their main weapon for survival.With an animal of that size and the fact that it's an otherworld, it's completely plausible to have instant death by poison even without bringing magic and superpowers into the mix.
Secondly, even if we were to assume that it was a large amount for the size of a human, that toxin will still take time. Unless that mess is caustic or corrosive, it's still going to take time to travel through the body. Just because it's a fantasy creature doesn't mean it's divorced from logic. This is why, in virtually every fantasy story, even the deadliest poisons take time or have a VISIBLE effect on the body.
Thirdly, you're making up a headcanon for a creature we have 0 information on. There's no statement or implication of poison, so I won't entertain the thought. These creatures have fins too, but they're clearly not designed to swim. The author had an oversight, that's all it is.