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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Sea louse, Fishkeeping, Fish diseases and parasites, Streptococcus iniae, Viral hemorrhagic septicemia, Myxobolus cerebralis, Nanophyetus salmincola, Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, Carnivorous protist, Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus, Aeromonas hydrophila, Lernaeocera branchialis, Schistocephalus solidus, Pfiesteria piscicida, Infectious salmon anemia virus, Kudoa thyrsites, Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, Trypanosoma, Disease in ornamental fish, Monogenea, Salmon louse, Saprolegnia, Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida, Dactylogyrus vastator, Head and lateral line erosion, Ceratomyxa shasta, Flavobacterium, Novirhabdovirus, Bath treatment, Gyrodactylus salaris, Aeromonas salmonicida, Fin rot, Columnaris, Sphaerothecum destruens, Salmonid susceptibility to whirling disease, Ammonia poisoning, Enteric redmouth disease, Fish dropsy, Cryptocaryon, Amoebic gill disease, Snakehead rhabdovirus, European Community Reference Laboratory for Fish Diseases, List of aquarium diseases, Koi herpes virus, Swim bladder disease, Fishpathogens.eu, Infectious pancreatic necrosis, Lymphocystis, Velvet, Ulcerative dermal necrosis, Mesnilium, Spironucleus salmonicida, Henneguya zschokkei, External bacterial infection, Walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus, Brooklynella hostilis, M74 syndrome. Excerpt: The sea louse (plural sea lice) is a copepod within the order Siphonostomatoida, family Caligidae. There are 36 genera within this family which include approximately 42 Lepeophtheirus and 300 Caligus species. Sea lice are marine ectoparasites (external parasites) that feed on the mucus, epidermal tissue, and blood of host marine fish. This article focuses on the genera Lepeophtheirus and Caligus which parasitize marine fish, in particular those species that have been recorded on farmed salmon. Lepeophtheirus salmonis and various Cal...
