Biology:Ceratomyxa gleesoni

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Short description: Species of marine parasite

Ceratomyxa gleesoni
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Myxosporea
Order: Bivalvulida
Family: Ceratomyxidae
Genus: Ceratomyxa
Species:
C. gleesoni
Binomial name
Ceratomyxa gleesoni
Gunter & Adlard, 2009

Ceratomyxa gleesoni is a myxosporean parasite that infects gall-bladders of serranid fishes from the Great Barrier Reef. It was first found on Plectropomus leopardus.[1]

References

  1. Gunter, Nicole L.; Adlard, Robert D. (2009). "Seven new species of Ceratomyxa Thélohan, 1892 (Myxozoa) from the gall-bladders of serranid fishes from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia". Systematic Parasitology 73 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1007/s11230-008-9162-6. ISSN 0165-5752. PMID 19337855. 

Further reading

  • Sobecka, Ewa, et al. "Morphological and molecular characterization of Ceratomyxa gurnardi sp. n.(Myxozoa: Ceratomyxidae) infecting the gallbladder of the grey gurnard Eutrigla gurnardus (L.)(Scorpaeniformes, Triglidae)." Parasitology research 112.2 (2013): 731–735.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q24915488 entry