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The batrachoidid Amphichthys cryptocentrus is an estuarine reef-associated species, characterized by a body of a uniformly dark background colour and head greatly depressed. We report colour abnormalities for this species, based on two specimens collected in the south-western Atlantic. Additionally, morphometric data and information about the species’ feeding habits and reproduction are provided. One specimen (most of the body was non-pigmented) exhibited small dark spots over a uniformly white body, but eyes were normally pigmented. Another specimen (totally non-pigmented) was oculocutaneous albino, lacked body pigmentation and eyes were pink-reddish translucent. Potential effects of these colour abnormalities on their ecology and behaviours are discussed.
This chapter talks about the neurocutaneous syndromes such as hypomelanosis of Ito (HI), incontinentia pigmenti (IP), nevus sebaceous (NS) syndrome and unilateral somatic intracranial hypoplasia. Chromosomal mosaicism is recognized as the pathogenic basis of many cases of HI and related disorders. It can explain the protean clinical manifestations of this condition and their often asymmetrical expression. Cerebral lesions of IP patients commonly extend radially through cortical and subcortical zones, involving cortex, subcortical and deep white matter, ependymal and subependymal zones of one or both cerebral hemispheres. Epilepsy usually appears after a variable period of evolution when the subcortical lesions are apparent in the cerebral hemisphere ipsilateral to the facial hemiatrophy. Unilateral hypoplasia of a polymicrogyric cerebral hemisphere, of the brainstem, cerebellum, and of the intracranial arteries on the same side and a hypoplastic hemibody commonly occur.
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