Saddleback Deformities in Fish Species Collected from the Arabian Gulf Coast of Jubail City, Saudi Arabia

摘要: The saddleback syndromes were observed in several commercial fishes obtained from Saudi Arabian coast of the Gulf. These deformities resulting missing dorsal spines or rays, sometimes accompanied by a depression profile, found ten fish species seven families. Other morphological abnormalities such as scale disturbances, lateral line deformity, and kyphosis, presence lesion, slight ambicoloration, supraneural accompanying deformity also observed. occurrence similar across spectrum same location suggests that induced something environment common to all these species.