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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144840203321

Autore

Lewbart Greg

Titolo

Invertebrate Medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Arnes, AI, : Wiley, 2008

ISBN

1-281-31771-3

9786611317713

0-470-34460-1

0-470-34430-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Disciplina

639.4

639.7

639.972

Soggetti

Invertebrates

Invertebrates - Diseases

Veterinary medicine

Veterinary Medicine

Health Occupations

Animals

Eukaryota

Disciplines and Occupations

Organisms

Health & Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Sponges; Chapter 3. Coelenterates; Chapter 4. Turbellarians; Chapter 5. Gastropods; Chapter 6. Cephalopods; Chapter 7. Bivalves; Chapter 8. Annelids; Chapter 9. Horseshoe Crabs; Chapter 10. Spiders; Chapter 11. Scorpions; Chapter 12. Crustaceans; Chapter 13. Myriapods (Centipedes and Millipedes); Chapter 14. Insects; Chapter 15. Nematodes; Chapter 16. Chaetognaths (Arrowworms); Chapter 17. Echinoderms; Chapter 18. Urochordates;



Chapter 19. Diagnostic Techniques and Sample Handling

Chapter 20. Laws, Rules, and Regulating Agencies for InvertebratesAppendix 1. Invertebrate Neoplasms; Appendix 2. Diseases of Invertebrates Notifiable to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE); Appendix 3. Euthanasia; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Invertebrate Medicine is the single most comprehensive resource available today on invertebrate animal medicine. Public and private aquarists, aquaculturists, and veterinarians in zoo animal, exotic animal and laboratory animal medicine will all find this book an irreplaceable source of information on many of the animals they care for or treat. Coverage includes sponges, jellyfish, anemones, corals, mollusks, starfish, sea urchins, crabs, crayfish, lobsters, shrimp, hermit crabs, spiders, scorpions, and dozens more. Although coverage is broad, emphasis is on invertebrates harvested fo