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

Occurrence of chromatophoroma or chromatophoromatosis inSardinella longiceps(Valenciennes, 1847) from Tamilnadu, southeast coast of India

“…() and Singaravel et al. () in Tamilnadu, on the southeast coast of India. However, there were no earlier reports of chromatophoromas in oil sardines.…”

First Report and 3D Reconstruction of a Presumptive Microscopic Liver Lipoma in a Black Barbel (Barbus balcanicus) from the River Bregalnica in the Republic of North Macedonia

“…Despite the fact that lipomas rarely appear in other locations in fish, they were detected in the body cavity of yellow-eye mullet (Aldrichetta forsteri) [20], the mesentery of the Senegal seabream (Diplodus bellottii) [21], the musculature around the vertebral column of the southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyuii) [20] and northern bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) [7], the stomach of the Indian oil sardine (Sardinella longiceps) [22] and the spleen of the largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) [23] and perch (Perca fluviatilis) [24]. Regarding liver lipoma, as far as we know, it has been described once, and with very limited imagery, in the marine coly (also known as the coalfish, saithe and Atlantic pollock) (Pollachius virens) almost a century ago [25].…”

Scleral fibrosarcoma and conjunctival squamous papilloma in Indian oil sardine, Sardinella longiceps (Valenciennes, 1847)

“…Papilloma is a benign neoplasm of epitheloid cells that affects both higher and lower vertebrates, including fish (Hedrick, Groff, Okihiro, & McDowell, ; Peters & Watermann, ; Rahmati‐holasoo, Shokrpoor, Ebrahimzadeh Mousavi, & Ardeshiri, ; Schlumberger & Lucke, ). Among fish, papilloma has been reported in European eel, Anguilla anguilla (Peters and Peters, ); koi carp, Cyprinus carpio (Calle et al., ) and gold spot pleco, Pterygoplichthys joselimaianus (Rahmati‐holasoo et al., ) besides other related neoplasms such as myxoma, osteoblastoma (Gopalakrishnan et al., ), branchioblastoma (Sinduja, Vijayakumar, & Gopalakrishnan, ) and gastric adenoma, myofibroblastoms, lipoma and fibrosarcomas (Singaravel, Gopalakrishnan, Vijayakumar, & Raja, ) in the dermal, gill and stomach of S. longiceps . To our knowledge, this is the first report of scleral fibrosarcoma and conjunctival squamous papilloma in the Indian oil sardine ( S. longiceps ).…”