gill
external breathing apparatus of fish. Very susceptible to a wide range of diseases.
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Gill system of fish. By permission from Aspinall V, O'Reilly M, Introduction toVeterinary Anatomy and Physiology, Butterworth Heinemann, 2004
gill disease
an infectious disease of aquarium and salmonid species of fish caused by Flavobacterium bronchiophila. Also in Crassostrea angulata caused by an iridovirus and in larval shrimp caused usually by a Leucothrix spp. bacterium. Chronic, proliferative inflammation causes the gill filaments to be swollen and may be clubbed or fused. Called also bacterial gill disease.
gill parasites
the following external parasites are commonly found on the gills, and elsewhere on the skin, in aquarium fish: Gyrodactylus elegans—a monogenetic fluke; Diplozoon barbi, D. paradoxum—monogenetic flukes; Ergasilus sieboldi—crustaceans. Freshly caught seahorses may carry the crustacean Argulus spp. Pond fish may carry the anchor worm Lernaea spp. These are all visible with the naked eye and can be removed manually.
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