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.
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Contributors. Foreword (Murray E. Fowler). Preface (Gregory A. Lewbart). Acknowledgments. Chapter 1. Introduction (Gregory A. Lewbart). Chapter 2. Sponges (Gregory A. Lewbart). Chapter 3. Coelenterates (Michael K. Stoskopf). Chapter 4. Turbellarians (Michael S. Bodri). Chapter 5. Gastropods (Roxanna Smolowitz). Chapter 6. Cephalopods (Joseph M. Scimeca). Chapter 7. Bivalves (Jay F. Levine, Mac Law, and Flavio Corsin). Chapter 8. Annelids (Gregory A. Lewbart). Color Plate Section. Chapter 9. Horseshoe Crabs (Stephen A. Smith). Chapter 10. Spiders (Romain Pizzi). Chapter 11. Scorpions (Fredric L. Frye). Chapter 12. Crustaceans (Edward J. Noga, Amy L. Hancock, and Robert A. Bullis). Chapter 13. Myriapods (Centipedes and Millipedes) (John R. Chitty). Chapter 14. Insects (John E. Cooper). Chapter 15. Nematodes (Michael S. Bodri). Chapter 16. Chaetognaths (Arrowworms) (Laura Foster). Chapter 17. Echinoderms (Craig A. Harms). Chapter 18. Urochordates (Robert S. Bakal). Chapter 19. Diagnostic Techniques and Sample Handling (Ilze K. Berzins and Roxanna Smolowitz). Chapter 20. Laws, Rules, and Regulating Agencies for Invertebrates (Daniel S. Dombrowski). Appendix 1. Invertebrate Neoplasms (Esther C. Peters). Appendix 2. Diseases of Invertebrates Notifiable to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Appendix 3. Euthanasia (Michael J. Murray). Index.
