Biology:Ichthyophonus
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Ichthyophonus | |
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| File:Ichthyophonus-hoferi-2.tif | |
| Hyphae (or germ tubes) and schizonts of Ichthyophonus hoferi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| (unranked): | Holozoa |
| Class: | Ichthyosporea |
| Order: | Ichthyophonida |
| Family: | Ichthyophonidae |
| Genus: | Ichthyophonus Plehn & Mulsow 1911 |
| Type species | |
| Ichthyophonus hoferi Plehn & Mulsow 1911
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Ichthyophonus is a genus of unicellular eukaryotic parasites of fish. They were once considered to be fungi, but phylogenetic evidence suggests they are protists related to both fungi and animals.[2][3]
Species
- I. gasterophilus (Caullery & Mesnil 1905) Sprague 1965
- I. hoferi Plehn & Mulsow 1911
- I. intestinalis Léger & Hesse 1923
- I. irregularis Rand et al. 2000
- I. lotae Leger 1925
References
- ↑ "Ichthyophonus". http://www.mycobank.org/Biolomics.aspx?Table=Mycobank&Rec=95744&Fields=All.
- ↑ "A novel clade of protistan parasites near the animal-fungal divergence". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 (21): 11907–12. October 1996. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.21.11907. PMID 8876236. Bibcode: 1996PNAS...9311907R.
- ↑ "Differential survival of Ichthyophonus isolates indicates parasite adaptation to its host environment". J. Parasitol. 94 (5): 1055–9. October 2008. doi:10.1645/GE-1553.1. PMID 18576846. https://zenodo.org/record/1236369.
Wikidata ☰ Q5986432 entry
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