Contents
List of Contributors xxl
Foreword xxii
Preface xxiii
Acknowledgments xxiv
Part I Pathology of Aquatic Animal Species 1 Introduction to the Manifestation of Disease and Major Pathogens 1
1 Aquatic Invertebrates 3 Acacia Alcivar-Warren, Kelly Bateman, Morag Clinton, Leo Foyle, Gregory Lewbart, Richmond Loh, and Julius Tepper Porifera( Sponges) 4 Overview 4 Clinical Signs 4 Coelenterates 4 Taxonomic Overview 4
Key Points 4 Clinical Signs 7 Clinical Signs: Corals( Anthozoans) 7 Diseases of Coral in Cultivation and Aquaria 7 Diseases of Small Polyp Stony Coral 7 Acropora-Eating Flatworm 7 Parasitic Copepods / Amphipods 10 Ciliares 11 i ' •!’ *
Montipora-Eating Nudibranch 11
Diseases of Large Polup Stony Corals 13 Euphyilla Flatworms 13 Dendrophilia-Eating Nudibranch 14
Diseases of Zoanthids 15 Zoanthid-Eating Nudibranch 15 Zoanthid Sea Spider 15
Other Parasites 15 Red Planaria( Convolutriloba retrogemma)( Figure 1.17) 15