Atlantic salmon diagnostic manual

Table of contents

Table of contents

Introduction

Diagnostic procedures

Fish radiography

Whole mount staining with alizarin red

When to examine

Normal

Malformation of Atlantic salmon skeleton

I. Fusions and fusion-associated changes

Time of onset

Development of lesions with time

Gross pathology

Fusions and body stricuture

II. Platyspondylia

III. Osteopenia

IV. Hyper dense vertebrae

V. Axis deviations

Scoliosis

Lordosis and kyphosis

VI. Skull and jaws

Short forehead - Pugnose

Malformations of the lawer jaw - screamer disease

Dislocation of the hyoid bone