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The dermatology of teleost fishes: A bibliography
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MULTILINGUAL
DICTIONARY
OF FISH AND FISH PRODUCTS
multilingual Dictionary of Fish and Fish Products, 2nd edition. J.J. Waterman (Editor). Prepared by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (O.E.C.D.) Paris, published by Fishing News Books, Ltd., Farnham, xvii + 430 pp., 1978,516.00, ISBN 0-85238-086-0. This dictionary gives, in 15 languages, the common and scientific names of most commercial species (and products). It is a joint exercise started in 1968 by the O.E.C.D. The second edition is a hard cover bound book. The reader can trace many names in the foreign languages and the book therefore fulfills a role. In checking the contents, I limited myself to screening the names in my own language (Dutch). The number of printing errors is rather high and some unforgivable mistakes have been made. One is always rather curious to discover who contributed for one’s own country, and it is striking that neither of the two institutes of my country (The Netherlands) dealing with nomenclature and systematics seem to have been consulted (i.e., the Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, and the Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden). This is perhaps the reason why a zealous man translated more or less all the English common names into Dutch, resulting in sometimes rather unwanted funny effects. It would have been better if only those fishes belonging to our fauna or possessing a Dutch vernacular name had been mentioned. The person responsible for the Dutch names for various fishery products did a good job. It is a pity that the galley proof was not seen by someone with understanding of the Dutch language. One wonders how accurate the names are in the other 14 languages. It puzzles me why the order of the indexes is as it is; why not begin with the scientific index, following with those of the various languages, or put it at the end, rather than in third place. Further, why not give the indexes for the countries in alphabetical order. As a positive gesture, a selection of 37 minor and major errors in the Dutch section of the book was sent to the O.E.C.D. to be used in a future edition. I hope that these comments do not side track the reader from the fact that this is a very useful attempt to provide the trade with a dictionary, for which there is a great need. S.J. DE GROOT
(IJmuiden,
DERMATOLOGY
The Netherlands)
OF TELEOSTS
The Dermatology of Teleost Fishes: A Bibliography. J.P. Hatton, R.J. Roberts and A.M. Bullock. Published by the University of Stirling, Scotland, 1976, 264 pp., US $4.25, ISBN o-901636-11-8.
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This bibliography, reprinted in 1977 with a few corrections, is the outcome of a collaboration between J.P. Hatton, assistant science librarian at the University of Stirling and two Scottish scientists, R.J. Roberts, Director, Unit of Aquatic Pathobiology, University of Stirling, and A.M. Bullock, Scottish Marine Biological Laboratory, Oban. The keen interest of Dr Roberts and Mr. Bullock in aquaculture and fish health (especially in diseases of the fish’s skin) probably served to launch the volume. The authors point out that the fish’s skin is very vulnerable to trauma and can serve as a useful indicator of fish health. Their purpose is, therefore, to make the literature on fish dermatology more accessible to interested scientists and to stimulate applied research on fish dermatology. The bibliography was compiled by examining some ten abstracting and indexing periodicals and by scanning the reference lists at the end of individual publications. As a result, some 1853 references were absorbed, certain of them dating back almost a ,century. Despite this, the authors warn that the listings are not exhaustive and indicate that users with special interests may find the bibliography of value only as a starting point in their literature searches. The bibliography appears to have been assembled with the convenience of the user uppermost in mind. Thus, although the references are listed alphabetically under some 19 topic headings, difficulties in locating references resulting from this arrangement are largely avoided by the provision of an author index. Users should also be able to acquaint themselves rapidly with what is known about each of the topics dealt with in the bibliography, This is made possible by listing the most informative references on any given topic at the head of the section dealing with that topic. Finally, because the references are not annotated, access to the appropriate abstracts has been made possible by also listing the abstracting journal references wherever possible. The net result is that in many instances users will be able to learn something about the content of the listings, even if access to the original articles proves difficult. The references are grouped under ten main headings: (1) Integument: Histology, (2) Scales, (3) External Organs, (4) Lateral Line, (5) Electric Organs, (6) Pigmentation, (7) Bioluminescence, (8) Mucus, (9) Toxigenesis, and (10) Disease. The last section is further divided into ten subsections: (i) Inflammation, Degeneration, and Wound Healing, (ii) Bacterial Dermatopathies, (iii) Mycotic Dermatopathies, (iv) Parasitic Dermatopathies, (v) Viral Dermatopathies, (vi) Neoplasia, (vii) Nutritional Dermatopathies, (viii) Developmental Anomalies, (ix) Dermatopathies of Unknown, or Complex Aetiology, and (x) Zoonoses. From the standpoint of the fish health scientist, sections 1 and 10 will undoubtedly be of greatest interest because they lead to information on the nature of the integument in health and disease and list useful references on the healing process. On the critical side, individual users may wonder about the basis for selecting the references included in the bibliography. It is far from clear, for example, why the section on bacterial dermatopathies lists so many references on
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systemic diseases like furunculosis and vibriosis. True, these diseases sometimes cause external lesions, but so also does bacterial kidney disease (BKD), an equally important systemic disease. The existence of BKD is only acknowledged by a single reference (reference 1461) - a 1935 reference in which the bacterial aetiology of the disease was at the time still uncertain. Clearly, a little more balance could have been achieved in selecting the references. This flaw is particularly regrettable as it applies to the Japanese literature, much of which appears to have been over-looked. Since the late nineteen-sixties, a growing proportion of the Japanese fish disease literature has been published (with English titles and often with English abstracts) in a single Japanese journal “Fish Pathology”, but none of the relevant articles in this journal appear in the bibliography. A second shortcoming of the bibliography is that it appears to contain a larger-than-expected number of incorrectly cited references. For example, a spot-check of the section on bacterial dermatopathies (mistyped as “Dermatographies”) revealed errors involving authorship (refs 1504, 1505, 1521, 1523, 1526, 1536, 1538, 1549), journal identity (refs 1524,1540), volume number (refs 1489, 1496), and pagination (refs 1473, 1516). On occasion too, the abstract references were incorrectly given (refs 1460,1472). Fortunately, the errors are in most cases not serious enough to prevent the determined researcher from obtaining a desired article, but they do leave the unfortunate impression that the bibliography was prepared in great haste. In summary, the bibliography, despite its shortcomings, is certainly a very worthwhile effort, and any researcher planning a project on fish dermatology would be well advised to acquire a copy. T.P.T. EVELYN (Nanaimo, B. c., Canada)
MULTILINGUAL
DICTIONARY
OF FISH AND FISH PRODUCTS
multilingual Dictionary of Fish and Fish Products, 2nd edition. J.J. Waterman (Editor). Prepared by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (O.E.C.D.) Paris, published by Fishing News Books, Ltd., Farnham, xvii + 430 pp., 1978,516.00, ISBN 0-85238-086-0. This dictionary gives, in 15 languages, the common and scientific names of most commercial species (and products). It is a joint exercise started in 1968 by the O.E.C.D. The second edition is a hard cover bound book. The reader can trace many names in the foreign languages and the book therefore fulfills a role. In checking the contents, I limited myself to screening the names in my own language (Dutch). The number of printing errors is rather high and some unforgivable mistakes have been made. One is always rather curious to discover who contributed for one’s own country, and it is striking that neither of the two institutes of my country (The Netherlands) dealing with nomenclature and systematics seem to have been consulted (i.e., the Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, and the Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden). This is perhaps the reason why a zealous man translated more or less all the English common names into Dutch, resulting in sometimes rather unwanted funny effects. It would have been better if only those fishes belonging to our fauna or possessing a Dutch vernacular name had been mentioned. The person responsible for the Dutch names for various fishery products did a good job. It is a pity that the galley proof was not seen by someone with understanding of the Dutch language. One wonders how accurate the names are in the other 14 languages. It puzzles me why the order of the indexes is as it is; why not begin with the scientific index, following with those of the various languages, or put it at the end, rather than in third place. Further, why not give the indexes for the countries in alphabetical order. As a positive gesture, a selection of 37 minor and major errors in the Dutch section of the book was sent to the O.E.C.D. to be used in a future edition. I hope that these comments do not side track the reader from the fact that this is a very useful attempt to provide the trade with a dictionary, for which there is a great need. S.J. DE GROOT
(IJmuiden,
DERMATOLOGY
The Netherlands)
OF TELEOSTS
The Dermatology of Teleost Fishes: A Bibliography. J.P. Hatton, R.J. Roberts and A.M. Bullock. Published by the University of Stirling, Scotland, 1976, 264 pp., US $4.25, ISBN o-901636-11-8.
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This bibliography, reprinted in 1977 with a few corrections, is the outcome of a collaboration between J.P. Hatton, assistant science librarian at the University of Stirling and two Scottish scientists, R.J. Roberts, Director, Unit of Aquatic Pathobiology, University of Stirling, and A.M. Bullock, Scottish Marine Biological Laboratory, Oban. The keen interest of Dr Roberts and Mr. Bullock in aquaculture and fish health (especially in diseases of the fish’s skin) probably served to launch the volume. The authors point out that the fish’s skin is very vulnerable to trauma and can serve as a useful indicator of fish health. Their purpose is, therefore, to make the literature on fish dermatology more accessible to interested scientists and to stimulate applied research on fish dermatology. The bibliography was compiled by examining some ten abstracting and indexing periodicals and by scanning the reference lists at the end of individual publications. As a result, some 1853 references were absorbed, certain of them dating back almost a ,century. Despite this, the authors warn that the listings are not exhaustive and indicate that users with special interests may find the bibliography of value only as a starting point in their literature searches. The bibliography appears to have been assembled with the convenience of the user uppermost in mind. Thus, although the references are listed alphabetically under some 19 topic headings, difficulties in locating references resulting from this arrangement are largely avoided by the provision of an author index. Users should also be able to acquaint themselves rapidly with what is known about each of the topics dealt with in the bibliography, This is made possible by listing the most informative references on any given topic at the head of the section dealing with that topic. Finally, because the references are not annotated, access to the appropriate abstracts has been made possible by also listing the abstracting journal references wherever possible. The net result is that in many instances users will be able to learn something about the content of the listings, even if access to the original articles proves difficult. The references are grouped under ten main headings: (1) Integument: Histology, (2) Scales, (3) External Organs, (4) Lateral Line, (5) Electric Organs, (6) Pigmentation, (7) Bioluminescence, (8) Mucus, (9) Toxigenesis, and (10) Disease. The last section is further divided into ten subsections: (i) Inflammation, Degeneration, and Wound Healing, (ii) Bacterial Dermatopathies, (iii) Mycotic Dermatopathies, (iv) Parasitic Dermatopathies, (v) Viral Dermatopathies, (vi) Neoplasia, (vii) Nutritional Dermatopathies, (viii) Developmental Anomalies, (ix) Dermatopathies of Unknown, or Complex Aetiology, and (x) Zoonoses. From the standpoint of the fish health scientist, sections 1 and 10 will undoubtedly be of greatest interest because they lead to information on the nature of the integument in health and disease and list useful references on the healing process. On the critical side, individual users may wonder about the basis for selecting the references included in the bibliography. It is far from clear, for example, why the section on bacterial dermatopathies lists so many references on
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systemic diseases like furunculosis and vibriosis. True, these diseases sometimes cause external lesions, but so also does bacterial kidney disease (BKD), an equally important systemic disease. The existence of BKD is only acknowledged by a single reference (reference 1461) - a 1935 reference in which the bacterial aetiology of the disease was at the time still uncertain. Clearly, a little more balance could have been achieved in selecting the references. This flaw is particularly regrettable as it applies to the Japanese literature, much of which appears to have been over-looked. Since the late nineteen-sixties, a growing proportion of the Japanese fish disease literature has been published (with English titles and often with English abstracts) in a single Japanese journal “Fish Pathology”, but none of the relevant articles in this journal appear in the bibliography. A second shortcoming of the bibliography is that it appears to contain a larger-than-expected number of incorrectly cited references. For example, a spot-check of the section on bacterial dermatopathies (mistyped as “Dermatographies”) revealed errors involving authorship (refs 1504, 1505, 1521, 1523, 1526, 1536, 1538, 1549), journal identity (refs 1524,1540), volume number (refs 1489, 1496), and pagination (refs 1473, 1516). On occasion too, the abstract references were incorrectly given (refs 1460,1472). Fortunately, the errors are in most cases not serious enough to prevent the determined researcher from obtaining a desired article, but they do leave the unfortunate impression that the bibliography was prepared in great haste. In summary, the bibliography, despite its shortcomings, is certainly a very worthwhile effort, and any researcher planning a project on fish dermatology would be well advised to acquire a copy. T.P.T. EVELYN (Nanaimo, B. c., Canada)