Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis is a single-celled species of marine amoebozoan in the genus Neoparamoeba. The species is also called Paramoeba pemaquidensis.[1]
Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
Class: | Discosea |
Order: | Dactylopodida |
Family: | Vexilliferidae |
Genus: | Neoparamoeba |
Species: | N. pemaquidensis
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Binomial name | |
Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis (Page, 1970) Page, 1987
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Synonyms | |
Paramoeba pemaquidensis Page, 1970 |
Its closely related sister species, Neoparamoeba perurans, is the agent of amoebic gill disease, which affects Atlantic salmon and other farmed fishes.[2]
References
edit- ^ Feehan, CJ (2013). "Validating the identity of Paramoeba invadens, the causative agent of recurrent mass mortality of sea urchins in Nova Scotia, Canada". Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 103 (3): 209–227. doi:10.3354/dao02577. PMID 23574707 – via Inter-Research Science Publisher.
- ^ Johnson-MacKinnon, Jessica C (2019). "Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) and Random Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Comparisons of Geographic Isolates of Neoparamoeba perurans, the Causative Agent of Amoebic Gill Disease". Pathogens. 8 (4): 244. doi:10.3390/pathogens8040244. PMC 6963586. PMID 31752364.