Myxosporea - Wikipedia
Myxosporea is a class of microscopic animals, all of whom are parasites. They belong to the Myxozoa clade within Cnidaria. They have a complex life cycle that comprises vegetative forms in two hosts—one an aquatic invertebrate (generally an annelid but sometimes a bryozoan) and the other an ectothermic vertebrate, usually a fish.
Description of myxosporeans (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) infecting the …
Myxozoa is one of the economically most important groups of microscopic metazoan parasites, as they infect fishes from both food and pet trades.
Myxozoa - Wikipedia
Myxozoa (etymology: Greek: μύξα myxa "slime" or "mucus" [2] + thematic vowel o + ζῷον zoon "animal" [3]) is a subphylum of aquatic cnidarian animals – all obligate parasites. It contains the smallest animals ever known to have lived. Over 2,180 species have been described and some estimates have suggested at least 30,000 undiscovered species. [1] .
Myxosporea - bionity.com
The Myxosporea are a class of microscopic parasites, belonging to the Myxozoa. They have a complex life cycle which comprises vegetative forms in two hosts, an aquatic invertebrate (generally an annelid) and an ectothermic vertebrate, usually a fish.
Myxosporean parasites of marine fishes: their distribution in the …
Myxosporeans are among the most common parasites of marine fish. Their economic importance is mainly as pathogens of both wild and farmed fish, but they have also been used as biological tags in population studies of their fish hosts.
Myxospore - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Myxozoans are obligate endoparasites, cosmopolitan in distribution with both vertebrate and invertebrate hosts. Their myxospores consist of shell valves, polar capsules with coiled polar tubules that are extrudible, and infective amoeboid germs.
SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF MYXOZOA GRASSÉ, 1970 (CNIDARIA: MYXOSPOREA ...
2017年12月20日 · A synopsis of records of the valid species of myxozoans (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) described in the Americas is provided based on a comprehensive survey of the literature since 1893, when the first...
Classification and Phylogenetics of Myxozoa - SpringerLink
2015年1月1日 · In this chapter we present a revised myxozoan classification with an updated taxonomic key. Our key accounts for the recent recognition of the cnidarian origin of myxozoans and the establishment and demise of several myxosporean genera, families and suborders.
Update of the species of Myxosporea (Cnidaria, Myxozoa
2024年8月14日 · The Myxosporea subclass harbours cnidarians myxozoans adapted for parasitism that infect mainly fishes worldwide. A total of 159 myxosporean species were described in South American waters until December 2016.
With the identification of Myxosporea as agents of swimbladder inflammation (SBI) in carp, and proliferative kidney disease ( P KD ) in salmonids, this group of over 1000 protistan species has been receiving renewed attention.