| disseminated fungal infection in two species of captive sharks. | in this report, two cases of systemic mycosis in captive sharks are characterized. these cases were progressive and ultimately culminated in terminal disease. paecilomyces lilacinus, an uncommon pathogen in human and veterinary medicine, was associated with areas of necrosis in the liver, heart, and gill in a great hammerhead shark (sphyrna mokarran). fungal growth was observed from samples of kidney, spleen, spinal fluid, and coelomic cavity swabs. dual fungal infection by exophiala pisciphila ... | 2011 | 22204064 |
| [hexabothriidae (monogenea) from selachii (sphyrna mokarran) in the red sea. description of a new species erpocotyle septistoma (author's transl)]. | the study of the hexabothriidae, from selachii in the red sea reveals two different species in the hammerhead shark sphyrna mokarran (rüppel, 1835): erpocotyle sphyrna (maccallum, 1931) et erpocotyle septistoma n. sp. the host specificity and the geographical distribution of e. shyrna are discussed. | 2006 | 742802 |
| a new species of phoreiobothrium (cestoidea:tetraphyllidea) from the great hammerhead shark sphyrna mokarran and its implications for the evolution of the onchobothriid scolex. | phoreiobothrium manirei n. sp. is described from the spiral intestines of 3 immature individuals of the great hammerhead shark sphyrna mokarran collected off of the west coast of florida. this cestode is unusual in that it possesses 4 muscular papillae on the anterior margin of the accessory sucker. numerous small protrusions with central cilium-like projections were conspicuous throughout the posterior margin of each bothridium. this species possesses the unique combination of bothridia posteri ... | 1996 | 8636853 |