Myxobolidae is a family of myxosporean parasites which typically infect freshwater fishes, and includes the economically significant species, Myxobolus cerebralis. They have been shown to have a complex life cycle, involving an alternate stage in an invertebrate, typically an annelid or polychaete worm.[citation needed]
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| Myxobolus spinacurvatura, a species of Myxobolidae (Myxobolus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Myxosporea |
| Order: | Bivalvulida |
| Suborder: | Platysporina Kudo, 1919[2] |
| Family: | Myxobolidae Thélohan, 1892[1] |
Morphology
editMyxosporean spores of genera belonging to the Myxobolidae are flattened parallel to the sutural line. They typically contain two polar capsules, and have a central vacuole in which they store β-glycogen. In some genera, the spore walls are drawn out into long processes which are thought to slow sinking through the water column.[citation needed]
Actinosporean stages which have been linked to members of the Myxobolidae have a single central "style" and three processes or "tails", around 200 micrometers long, projecting from this. A sporoplasm packet at the end of the style contains 64 germ cells surrounded by a cellular envelope. There are also three polar capsules, each of which contains a coiled polar filament.[citation needed]
Genera
edit- Dicauda Hoffman & Walker, 1978[3]
- Hennegoides Lom, Tonguthai & Dyková, 1991[4]
- Henneguya Thélohan, 1892[1]
- Laterocaudata Chen & Hsieh, 1984[5]
- Myxobolus Bütschli, 1882[6]
- Thelohanellus Kudo, 1933[7]
- Trigonosporus Hoshina, 1952[8]
- Unicauda Davis, 1944[9]
References
edit- ^ a b Thélohan, P. (1892). "Observations sur les myxosporidies et essai de classification de ces organismes". Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris (in French). 4: 165–178.
- ^ Kudo, R. (1919). "Studies on Myxosporidia. A synopsis of genera and species of Myxosporidia". Illinois Biological Monographs. 5.
- ^ Hoffman, G. L.; Walker, R. (October 1978). "A new myxosporidan, Dicauda atherinodi n.g., n. sp. of the minnow, Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque". Journal of Fish Diseases. 1 (4): 343–349. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2761.1978.tb00038.x. ISSN 0140-7775.
- ^ Lorn, J; Tonguthai, K; Dykova, I (1991). "Hennegoides longitudinalis n. gen. n. sp.,a myxosporean parasite of Osphronemus gourami from Thailand" (PDF). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 11: 143–145. doi:10.3354/dao011143. ISSN 0177-5103.
- ^ "IRMNG - Laterocaudata Chen & Hsieh, 1984". www.irmng.org. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
- ^ Bütschli, O. (1882). "Myxosporidia". In Bütschli, O. (ed.). Dr. H. G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Erster Band. Protozoa (in German). Leipzig: C. F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung.
- ^ Kudo, R. (July 1933). "A Taxonomic Consideration of Myxosporidia". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 52 (3): 195–216. doi:10.2307/3222254.
- ^ Hoshina, T. (1952). "Notes on some myxosporidian parasites on fishes of Japan". Journal of the Tokyo University of Fisheries. 39 (1): 69–89.
- ^ Davis, H. S. (October 1944). "A Revision of the Genus Henneguya (Myxosporidia) with Descriptions of Two New Species". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 63 (4): 311–320. doi:10.2307/3223303.
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