Record #:

1868

Author(s):

Hart, Kathy

Abstract:

N.C. Sea Grant fish pathologists have discovered a microscopic animal that paralyzes fish with toxins and sucks away their flesh. The creature, dinoflagellate, is known to scientists, but its heretofore unknown predatory behavior shocked the researchers

Source:

Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , July/Aug 1994, p19-20, il

Subject(s):

Dinoflagellates