| study of patient's injuries by stingrays, lethal activity determination and cardiac effects induced by himantura gerrardi venom. | stingrays are common inhabitants in the northern waters of the persian gulf and oman sea. in the present study, the clinical aspects of injuries induced in three patients bitten by stingrays in hormozgan province waters were first examined. the ld(50) of crude venom extract obtained from the most common stingray in hormozgan province (himantura gerrardi) was then estimated by up-and-down dosing and double dose methods in mice. third and finally, the cardiac symptoms induced by injection of the e ... | 2009 | 19563821 |
| three dendromonocotyle species (monogenea: monocotylidae) reported from captive rays, including d. lotteri sp. n. from himantura gerrardi (elasmobranchii: dasyatidae) in the public aquarium at the atlantis resort, dubai. | dendromonocotyle lotteri sp. n. is described from the dorsal skin surface of the stingray himantura gerrardi (gray) on exhibit in the public aquarium at the atlantis resort in dubai. it is differentiated from all other dendromonocotyle species by the unique morphology of the distal portion of the sclerotised male copulatory organ. dendromonocotyle lotteri is the second representative in the genus with 56 marginal haptoral papillae having a papillae to loculus association represented numerically ... | 2009 | 19606786 |