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Gadimyxa arctica

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Species of marine parasite

Gadimyxa arctica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Myxosporea
Order: Bivalvulida
Family: Parvicapsulidae
Genus: Gadimyxa
Species: G. arctica
Binomial name
Gadimyxa arctica
Køie, Karlsbakk & Nylund, 2007

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.

References

  1. 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

  • 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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Taxon identifiers
Gadimyxa arctica


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