Gadimyxa arctica is a species of parasitic myxozoan. Together with G. atlantica and G. sphaerica, they infect Gadus morhua and Arctogadus glacialis by developing coelozoically in bisporic plasmodia in their urinary systems. These 3 species' spores exhibit two morphological forms: wide and subspherical, being both types bilaterally symmetrical along the suture line. The wide spores have a mean width ranging from 7.5-10μm, respectively, while the subspherical ones range from 5.3-8μm in mean width. The subspherical forms of Gadimyxa are similar to Ortholinea, differing in the development of the spores and in the arrangement of the polar capsules.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Myxosporea |
| Order: | Bivalvulida |
| Family: | Parvicapsulidae |
| Genus: | Gadimyxa |
| Species: | G. arctica
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| Binomial name | |
| Gadimyxa arctica Køie, Karlsbakk & Nylund, 2007
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References
edit- ^ Køie, Marianne; Karlsbakk, Egil; Nylund, Are (2007). "A New Genus Gadimyxa with Three New Species (Myxozoa, Parvicapsulidae) Parasitic in Marine Fish (Gadidae) and the Two-Host Life Cycle of Gadimyxa atlantica n. sp". Journal of Parasitology. 93 (6): 1459–1467. doi:10.1645/GE-1256.1. ISSN 0022-3395. PMID 18314694. S2CID 37478481.
Further reading
edit- Køie, Marianne, et al. "The parasite fauna of Arctogadus glacialis (Peters)(Gadidae) from western and eastern Greenland." Polar Biology 31.9 (2008): 1017–1021.
- Køie, Marianne, et al. "A parvicapsulid (Myxozoa) infecting Sprattus sprattus and Clupea harengus (Clupeidae) in the Northeast Atlantic uses Hydroides norvegicus (Serpulidae) as invertebrate host." Folia parasitologica 60.2 (2013): 149–154.
- Yurakhno, V. M. "Two New Families and a New Species of Myxosporeans (Myxozoa, Myxosporea) from the Mediterranean and Black Sea Fishes."Вестник зоологии (2011).
- BARTOŠOVÁ, PAVLA, et al. "Phylogenetic position of Sphaerospora testicularis and Latyspora scomberomori n. gen. n. sp.(Myxozoa) within the marine urinary clade." Parasitology 138.03 (2011): 381–393.
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