Hook‐shaped enterolith and secondary cachexia in a free‐living grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus, Rafinesque 1810)

The carcass of a critically endangered, juvenile female grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus, Rafinesque 1810) was recovered from a south‐eastern Australian beach and subjected to necropsy. The 1.98‐m‐long shark exhibited advanced cachexia with its total weight (19.0 kg) and liver weight (0.37 kg) re...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Veterinary Medicine and Science 2021-01, Vol.7 (1), p.240-250
Hauptverfasser:	Otway, Nicholas M., West, Greg J., Gore, Damian B., Williamson, Jane E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal behavior Cachexia Carcharias taurus Case Report Case Reports Chronic illnesses Computed tomography Concretions CT scan Endangered & extinct species Endangered species enterolithiasis Females Fishes Ginglymostoma cirratum Intestine Minerals morphometrics Necropsy Nurses sand tiger shark Sharks Struvite White-tailed deer X‐ray diffractometry
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