Invertebrate MedicineGregory A. Lewbart Invertebrate Medicine, Second Edition offers a thorough update to the most comprehensive book on invertebrate husbandry and veterinary care. Including pertinent biological data for invertebrate species, the book’s emphasis is on providing state-of-the-art information on medicine and the clinical condition. Invertebrate Medicine, Second Edition is an invaluable guide to the medical care of both captive and wild invertebrate animals. Coverage includes sponges, jellyfish, anemones, corals, mollusks, starfish, sea urchins, crabs, crayfish, lobsters, shrimp, hermit crabs, spiders, scorpions, and many more, with chapters organized by taxonomy. New chapters provide information on reef systems, honeybees, butterfly houses, conservation, welfare, and sources of invertebrates and supplies. Invertebrate Medicine, Second Edition is an essential resource for veterinarians in zoo animal, exotic animal and laboratory animal medicine; public and private aquarists; and aquaculturists. |
Contents
Sponges | 7 |
Coelenterates | 21 |
Coral Reef Aquarium Husbandry and Health | 57 |
Turbellarians | 77 |
Gastropods | 95 |
Color plate located between pages 112 and | 113 |
Bivalves | 127 |
Annelids | 153 |
Myriapods Centipedes and Millipedes | 255 |
Honeybees | 285 |
Butterfly Houses | 323 |
Chaetognaths Arrowworms | 355 |
Urochordates | 381 |
U S and International | 401 |
Neoplasia | 431 |
Invertebrate Animal Welfare | 445 |
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abalone adult algae anemones anesthesia anesthetic animals Apis mellifera Aquaculture aquaria aquarium aquatic autotomy bacteria bees Biol bivalves body brood butterfly houses Caenorhabditis elegans captive cause cells cephalopods chaetognaths clinical signs coelomic colony color plate section conservation contains coral crustaceans culture cuticle diagnosis digestive disease dorsal ecdysis effects eggs environment environmental feeding female Figure fish freshwater fungal gastropods gill gland gonad growth habitat Haliotis hemocytes hemolymph hive honeybee horseshoe crab host important infection Invertebrate Medicine invertebrates laboratory larvae leeches lesions Lewbart lobsters marine millipede mites mollusks mortality muscle mussels nematodes neoplasia occur oligochaetes opisthosoma organisms oysters parasites pathogens Photo courtesy phylum planarians polychaetes polyps prey prosoma protein reef reported reproductive scorpions shell shrimp species specimens spiders sponge substrate surface tarantula temperature terrestrial tion tissue toxic treatment turbellarians Varroa Varroa destructor ventral vertebrates veterinary virus WormBook worms zooxanthellae