Skin Lesions on Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from Three Sites in the Northwest Atlantic, USA
Figure 4
Examples of skin lesion types on free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) photographed in waters near Charleston, SC (CHS), Brunswick and Sapelo Island, GA (BSG), and Sarasota Bay, FL (SSB) in 2009.
Lesion types include: black (a); pale (b); lunar (c); dark-fringed spots (d); white-fringed spots (e); orange patch (f); tattoo-like (g); white velvety (h); lacaziosis-like (i); vesicular (j); mottled (k); and spotted (l). (Categories from [3], [5], [9], [12]) Photo credit: B.Balmer, NCCOS/NOS/NOAA, Sarasota Dolphin Research Program.
