Diseases of captive yellow seahorse Hippocampus kuda Bleeker, pot-bellied seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson and weedy seadragon Phyllopteryx taeniolatus (Lacépède)
| Autor: | Véronique LePage, Jean A. Paré, K Young, G Crawshaw, D J McLelland, M Kummrow, John S. Lumsden, P Huber, J Young, C J Dutton, L Al-Hussinee, S Russell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Parasitic Diseases Animal Veterinary (miscellaneous) Population Zoology Aquatic Science Pipefish Fish Diseases Syngnathidae Microscopy Electron Transmission Neoplasms Animals Hippocampus (mythology) education Retrospective Studies Ontario education.field_of_study biology Fishes Hippocampus kuda Bacterial Infections Anatomy biology.organism_classification Smegmamorpha Intestines Virus Diseases Seahorse Animals Zoo Female Phyllopteryx taeniolatus |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Fish Diseases. 38:439-450 |
| ISSN: | 0140-7775 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jfd.12254 |
| Popis: | Seahorses, pipefish and seadragons are fish of the Family Syngnathidae. From 1998 to 2010, 172 syngnathid cases from the Toronto Zoo were submitted for post-mortem diagnostics and retrospectively examined. Among the submitted species were yellow seahorses Hippocampus kuda Bleeker (n=133), pot-bellied seahorses Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson (n=35) and weedy seadragons Phyllopteryx taeniolatus (Lacépède; n=4). The three most common causes of morbidity and mortality in this population were bacterial dermatitis, bilaterally symmetrical myopathy and mycobacteriosis, accounting for 24%, 17% and 15% of cases, respectively. Inflammatory processes were the most common diagnoses, present in 117 cases. Seven neoplasms were diagnosed, environmental aetiologies were identified in 46 cases, and two congenital defects were identified. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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