| studies on epizootic iridovirus infection among red sea bream, pagrus major (temminck & schlegel), cultured in taiwan. | since 1993, an epizootic viral disease has occurred in net-cage cultured red sea bream, pagrus major (temminck & schlegel), in peng-hu island located on the south-western coast of taiwan. the diseased fish exhibited abnormal swimming and were lethargic, but few visible external signs were observed. the cumulative mortality because of the disease sometimes reached 50-90% over 2 months. histopathogical studies of the affected fish showed enlarged basophilic cells in the gill, kidney, heart, liver ... | 2003 | 12962222 |
| observations on a cucullanid nematode of marine fishes from taiwan strait, dichelyne (cucullanellus) jialaris n. sp. | during a helminthological examination of marine fishes from south of the minnan-taiwan bank fishing ground, taiwan strait, fujian, china, a new cucullanid nematode, dichelyne (cucullanellus) jialaris n. sp., was removed from the intestine of the red seabream, pagrus major (temminck & schlegel, 1834). the new species differs from its congeners mainly in the following characters: body size medium but with relative long spicules of 1.01 mm (0.97-1.06) in length or 20.0% (18.21-21.8%) of the body le ... | 2004 | 15270107 |