Title
Diseases of captive yellow seahorse Hippocampus kuda Bleeker, pot-bellied seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson and weedy seadragon Phyllopteryx taeniolatus (Lacépède)
Author(s)
LePage, V.;Young, J.;Dutton, C. J.;Crawshaw, G.;Paré, J. A.;Kummrow, M.;McLelland, D. J.;Huber, P.;Young, K.;Russell, S.;Al-Hussinee, L.;Lumsden, J. S.
Published
2015
Publisher
Journal of Fish Diseases
Abstract
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.
Keywords
disease;seadragon;seahorse;syngnathid
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