Antillean manatee Trichechus manatus manatus (Sirenia: Trichechidae) as a motile ecosystem of epibiont fauna in the Caribbean Sea, Mexico
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Acute myocarditis in a West Indian Manatee, Trichechus manatus (Sirenia: Trichechidae), from Puerto Rico
A 12-year old, adult male, West indian Manatee, Trichechus manatus, which stranded in Ponce, Puerto Rico 26 August 1992, died from cardiac failure. Suppurative epicarditis, myocarditis and endocarditis with mild to moderate degeneration and necrosis was caused by an unidentified infectious agent. Moderate to heavy parasite respiratory infections with Cochleotrema cochleotrema and intestinal inf...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therya
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2007-3364
DOI: 10.12933/therya-17-517