Extensive uncharted biodiversity: the parasite dimension

B Okamura, A Hartigan, J Naldoni - Integrative and Comparative …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Parasites are often hidden in their hosts and exhibit patchy spatial distributions. This makes
them relatively difficult to detect and sample. Consequently we have poor knowledge of …

Trematodes of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: emerging patterns of diversity and richness in coral reef fishes

TH Cribb, NJ Bott, RA Bray, MKA McNamara… - International Journal for …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Great Barrier Reef holds the richest array of marine life found anywhere in
Australia, including a diverse and fascinating parasite fauna. Members of one group, the …

Approaches for characterising myxozoan species

SD Atkinson, P Bartošová-Sojková, CM Whipps… - … evolution, ecology and …, 2015 - Springer
Myxozoan species and genera have been defined traditionally using morphological
characteristics of spores and developmental stages, host preference and tissue specificity …

Myxosporean parasites of marine fishes: their distribution in the world's oceans

K MacKenzie, C Kalavati - Parasitology, 2014 - cambridge.org
Myxosporeans are among the most common parasites of marine fish. Their economic
importance is mainly as pathogens of both wild and farmed fish, but they have also been …

Ultrastructure and phylogeny of Ceratomyxa auratae n. sp.(Myxosporea: Ceratomyxidae), a parasite infecting the gilthead seabream Sparus aurata (Teleostei …

S Rocha, G Casal, L Rangel, R Castro… - Parasitology …, 2015 - Elsevier
A new myxosporean parasite is described from the gall bladder of the gilthead seabream
Sparus aurata in a Southern Portuguese fish farm, with basis on light and transmission …

Synopsis of the species of Ceratomyxa Thélohan, 1892 (Cnidaria, Myxosporea, Ceratomyxidae) described between 2007 and 2017

JC Eiras, C Cruz, A Saraiva - Systematic parasitology, 2018 - Springer
A synopsis of the species of Ceratomyxa Thélohan, 1892 (Cnidaria, Myxosporea,
Ceratomyxidae) described between 2007 and 2017 is presented, including 83 nominal …

[HTML][HTML] Amazonian waters harbour an ancient freshwater Ceratomyxa lineage (Cnidaria: Myxosporea)

SA Zatti, SD Atkinson, JL Bartholomew, AAM Maia… - Acta tropica, 2017 - Elsevier
A new species of Ceratomyxa parasitizing the gall bladder of Cichla monoculus, an endemic
cichlid fish from the Amazon basin in Brazil, is described using morphological and molecular …

Coelozoic parasite of the family Ceratomyxidae (Myxozoa, Bivalvulida) described from motile vermiform plasmodia found in Hemiodus unimaculatus Bloch, 1794

MF da Silva, AEFB de Carvalho, I Hamoy… - Parasitology research, 2020 - Springer
Myxozoans of the family Ceratomyxidae are common coelozoic parasites of marine,
anadromous, and freshwater fish, and may also be found, less frequently, parasitizing the …

Ceratomyxa tunisiensis n. sp. (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida) from the Gallbladders of Two Carangid Fish Caught Off the Coast of Tunisia

A Thabet, L Mansour, SY Al Omar… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A new coelozoic Myxozoan species, Ceratomyxa tunisiensis n. sp., was found infecting the
gallbladders of two carangid fish, Caranx rhonchus and Trachurus trachurus (Perciforme …

Evolution, origins and diversification of parasitic cnidarians

B Okamura, A Gruhl - The evolution and fossil record of parasitism …, 2021 - Springer
Parasitism has evolved in cnidarians on multiple occasions but only one clade—the
Myxozoa—has undergone substantial radiation. We briefly review minor parasitic clades …