Invertebrate Course 2022

Contributor:BENNETT

Signalment:Young adult Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus

History:Increased fatalities in a local public aquarium. Mortalities spanned multiple tanks connected to the same life support system. There was an absence of clinical signs and postmortem decomposition limited investigations, so an arbitrary individual was euthanized and submitted immediately for diagnostics.

Gross Lesions:Hepatopancreas: Nodules, multifocal, random, moderate