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The case report on cutaneous myxoma or invasive myxomatosis in Blackfin sea catfish (Arius jella Day, 1877)

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The presence of cutaneous myxoma is reported in a Blackfin sea catfish (Arius jella) from Vellar estuary, Parangipettai, southeast coast of India. The gross morphology revealed fleshy with gelatinous distended tumourous growths on both sides of the fish attached to the caudal peduncle region. Tumour overlying the epidermis was ulcerated, hyperemic and hyperchromatic. Histologically, the tumourous growth was characterized by bland spindloid cells embedded in an abundant myxoid extracellular matrix. The tumour masses were present within the dermis and covered with a thin attenuated layer of epidermis. Neoplastic cells were histochemically positive for alcian blue, argyrophilic nuclear organizer regions, Masson’s trichrome, periodic acid-Schiff, and toluidine blue and negative for Oil Red O. On the basis of the histological and histochemical findings, this tumour was diagnosed as cutaneous myxoma or invasive myxomatosis.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India, New Delhi for financial support for the project entitled “Prevalence of tumours in food fishes of Tamil Nadu coast” (D.O. No.22-31/2010-CS-I). We also acknowledge the fishing communities at sampling localities for their help during fish collection and the supply of fish samples.

This study was funded by the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India (Grant No. D.O. No.22-31/2010-CS-I)

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  1. Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Parangipettai, 608 502, Tamilnadu, India

    Vijayapoopathi Singaravel, Ayyaru Gopalakrishnan, Ramalingam Vijayakumar & Kuzhanthaivel Raja

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The corresponding author (Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan) received a research grant from the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India. The first author (Mr. V. Singaravel) and last author (Dr. K. Raja) receiving fellowship from the mentioned project. The third author (Dr. R. Vijayakumar) declares that he has no conflict of interest.

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Singaravel, V., Gopalakrishnan, A., Vijayakumar, R. et al. The case report on cutaneous myxoma or invasive myxomatosis in Blackfin sea catfish (Arius jella Day, 1877). Comp Clin Pathol 25, 491–495 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00580-015-2203-z

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