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Definition of Saprolegnia ferax

1. Noun. A fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saprolegnia Ferax

Literary usage of Saprolegnia ferax

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"What has always struck me as peculiar was that such a fungus as Saprolegnia ferax, which grows so profusely on dead tissue, should grow so readily on live ..."

2. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1882)
"... but that it is a form of the Saprolegnia ferax, which, so far as onr observations go—and it must be remembered that these extend over only the quarter ..."

3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"It appears, therefore, that Saprolegnia ferax is capable of attacking a great variety of fishes during life, but that the concomitant pathological phenomena ..."

4. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"... Saprolegnia ferax and 5. monoica all agree in showing that a mycelium out of a relatively poor soin., measured by vegetative growth, may produce more or ..."

5. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"It may be safely concluded, therefore, that the salmon fungus is not a parasite peculiar to that fish, but that it is a form of the Saprolegnia ferax, ..."

6. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1884)
"The other died on the i6th of March, its body being nearly covered with a luxuriant growth of Saprolegnia ferax" Two other fish similarly infected died, ..."

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