HISTOPATHOLOGICAL STUDIES ON GILLS OF Leiognathus equulus (Perciformes) FROM AL-SHABAB LAGOON, IN JEDDAH PROVINCE

S.O. RABAH¹*
¹Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
* Corresponding Author : samerrbah@yahoo.com

Received : 29-12-2016     Accepted : 19-03-2017     Published : 28-03-2017
Volume : 9     Issue : 3       Pages : 252 - 256
Genetics 9.3 (2017):252-256

Keywords : Common ponyfish., Histopathology,. Red Sea., Al-Shabab lagoon, Gills
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : This study was supported financially by king Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology / the deanship of graduate studies, KSA. The authors would like to thank the King Fahd Medical Research Center for helping in histological assays. Ethical approval: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors
Author Contribution : None declared

The gills of fish are sensitive to chemical and physical changes in the aquatic environment. Common pony fish Leiognathus equulus was caught from the Red Sea and Al-Shabab lagoon. This study was carried out to investigate the histopathological alternations induced by the Al-Shabab lagoon pollutants in gills. The common alternations observed were hyperplasia and fusion of gill lamellae, epithelial lifting, desquamation and necrosis of gill epithelial cells

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