Neoplasia in the Indian oil sardine, Sardinella longiceps (Valenciennes), and the great barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards), from the south-east coast of India

Isolation and identification of marine fish tumour (odontoma) associated bacteria

“…Fish tumours have been reported frequently in India as well as worldwide in both marine and fresh water fishes. For example, in India from the same study area, skin tumour was reported by Gopalakrishnan et al [19] in Sardinella longiceps, by Jithendran et al in Muhill cephalus [20] and mouth tumour by Vijayakumar et al [14] in S. jello; they concluded that tumours were unknown aetiology.…”

Prevalance and pathology of gastric tumours in Indian oil sardine (Sardinella longiceps) from Parangipettai coastal waters, southeast coast of India

“…Gopalakrishnan et al has reported skin tumour (0.38%) in S. longiceps, Parangipettai coastal waters [2]. In fish, reports on stomach tumours are meager than skin tumour, because of their distinctive appearance and imperceptible pathological nature.…”

“…The radiographical observations are generally used to assess skeleton deformities, bone demineralization and tumours [2][3][4][5]. Histopathological examination is usually used to assess the manifestation of diseases, health of organisms and evaluation of the organ structure, which reflect the morphological structure of the cells and tissues [6,7].…”

“…The Indian oil sardine [Sardinella longiceps (S. longiceps)] is distributed abundantly along the east and west coasts of India [14]. They are highly suffered with skin neoplasm [2]. This study reports prevalence and histological observation of the stomach tumours in S.…”

Oral neoplasms in pickhandle barracuda Sphyraena jello from India

“…In fish, oral tumours (i.e. odontomas, ameloblastomas, papillomas and fibromas) have been reported in Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Thomas 1926), Oncorhynchus tsha wyt scha (Schlumberger & Katz 1956, Stolk 1957, Stock ley 1975, Grim et al 2009), Sparus aurata (Harshbarger 1974, Easa & Faisal 1987, Tautogolabrus adsphersus (Harsh barger 1974), Cyprinodon variegatus variegatus (Martineau et al 1990), Alcichthys elongatus (Honma et al 2003), Carcharias taurus, Prionace glauca (Boru cins ka et al 2004), Sphyraena barracuda (Gopalakrishnan et al 2011), Sander vitreus (Coffee et al 2013), Sphyraena jello (Vijayakumar et al 2014), Pterophyllum scalare (Videira et al 2015) and Carcharodon carcharias (Huveneers et al 2016). However, odontomas, myxomas and psammomatoid ossifying fibromas are rare tumours in fish.…”