Invertebrate Medicine

by Gregory A. Lewbart (North Carolina State University)

• ISBN13: 9780470344309
• ISBN10: 047034430X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 for food or kept in captivity as pets, for display, or as research animals. The book's organization is easy to follow, with chapters dividing up invertebrates taxonomically. Each chapter includes the natural history of the group, anatomy and physiology, environmental disorders, preventative medicine, infectious diseases, common miscellaneous disorders, analgesia, anesthesia and surgery, treatment protocols and formularies. Amply illustrated in color and black and white, Invertebrate Medicine is sure to become the classic reference on invertebrate animal medicine.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Lewbart

Porifera - Lewbart

Coelenterates - Stoskopf

Turbellarians - Bodri

Gastropods - Smolowitz

Cephalopods - Scimeca

Bivalves - Levine, Law, Corsin

Annelids - Lewbart

Limulus - Smith

Spiders - Pizzi

Scorpions - Frye

Crustaceans - Noga, Hancock

Myriapods - Chitty

Insects - Cooper

Nematodes - Bodri

Chaetognatha - Foster

Echinoderms - Harms

Urochordata - Bakal

Diagnostic Techniques and Sample Handling - Berzins, Smolowitz

Laws, Rules, and Regulating Agencies for Invertebrates - Dombrowski

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