Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis

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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Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Discosea
Order: Dactylopodida
Family: Vexilliferidae
Genus: Neoparamoeba
Species:
N. pemaquidensis
Binomial name
Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis
(Page, 1970) Page, 1987
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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.