Myxobolidae Thelohan 1892
- 1. Ecotoxicology, Fish and Fisheries, Aquaculture Extension Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, India; & Department of Zoology, Kalimpong College, Kalimpong, West Bengal, India;
- 2. Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR / CIMAR), Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Matosinhos, Portugal; & Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Description
Key to tailed genera of Myxobolidae
1a. Spores ovoid or pyriform, with two polar capsules and a single tail-like caudal process ................................. 2
1b. Spores with two or more tail-like caudal processes or bifurcated tail; composed of same materials as shell valve ......3
2a. Single tail-like caudal process; caudal process symmetrically located at the posterior end .................................. ...................................................... Unicauda Davis, 1944
2b. Single tail-like caudal process, which may be forked at the very end, originating posterolaterally and asymmetrically .................. Laterocaudata Chen et Hsieh, 1984
3a. Spores tear-shaped shaped, with a single polar capsule, caudal process bifurcated ..... Phlogospora Qadri, 1962
3b. Spores with two polar capsules and 2 caudal processes... 4
3c. Spores with two polar capsules and 4 caudal processes ... 5
4a. Spores with two caudal processes ................................ .......................................... Henneguya Thélohan, 1892
4b. Spores with two caudal processes, asymmetric ........... ........... Hennegoides Lom, Tonguthai et Dyková, 1991
4c. Spores with two caudal processes, extending in opposite directions ............... Dicauda Hoffman et Walker, 1978
5a. Spores ellipsoidal with two caudal processes at each end of the spore; polar capsules situated asymmetrically ..... ........................................ Neohenneguya Tripathi, 1953
5b. Spores with four posterolateral caudal processes, two from each shell valve .................................................... ....................... Tetrauronema Wu, Wang et Jiang, 1988
5c. Spores rhomboidal with four caudal processes pointing in the opposite direction, connected by transverse filaments ............................ Trigonosporus Hoshina, 1952
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myxobolidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Bivalvulida
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Thelohan
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myxobolidae Thelohan, 1892 sec. Barman, Chanda, Panigrahi & Eiras, 2022
References
- KAUR H., ATTRI R. 2015: Morphological and molecular characterization of Henneguya bicaudi n. sp. (Myxosporea: Myxobolidae) infecting gills of Cirrhinus mrigala (Ham.) in Harike Wetland, Punjab (India). Parasitol. Res. 114: 4161 - 4167.
- TRIPATHI Y. R. 1952: Studies on parasites of Indian fishes I. Pro- tozoa: Myxosporidia together with a check list of parasitic protozoa described from Indian fishes. Rec. Ind. Mus. 50: 63 - 88.
- GUPTA A., KAUR H. 2018: 18 S and 28 S rDNA identity and phylogeny of two novel myxosporeans infecting gills of cyprinid carps inhabiting a coldwater wetland in northern India. Microb. Path. 120: 97 - 108.
- GUPTA S., KHERA S. 1987: On the genera Henneguya Thelohan, 1892 and Unicauda, Davis, 1944. Res. Bull. Punjab Univ. 38: 153 - 163.
- QADRI S. S. 1965: Study on a new myxosporidian parasite from the fresh water fish Notopterus notopterus. Zool. Anz. 175: 225 - 228.
- GANAPATI P. N. 1941. On a new myxosporidian Henneguya otolithi n. sp., a tissue parasite from the bulbus arteriosus of two species of fish of the genus Otolithus. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., Section B 13: 135 - 150.
- LALITHA KUMARI P. S. 1965: On a new species of Henneguya (Protozoa: Myxosporidia) from an Indian fresh water fish, Ophiocephalus gachua. Riv. Parassitol. 26: 79 - 84.
- LALITHA KUMARI P. S. 1969: Studies on parasitic Protozoa (Myxosporidia) of fresh water fishes of Andhra Pradesh, India. Riv. Parassitol. 30: 153 - 226.
- MENON N. G. 1986: On a new myxosporidan Henneguya tachysuri sp. nov., from the marine cat fish Tachysurus thalassinus (R ʾ ppell) from the Gulf of Mannar. J. Marine Biol. Ass. India 21: 196 - 199.
- QADRI S. S. 1962: On a new myxosporidian parasite, Phlogospora mysti, gen. n., sp. n., from Indian fresh water fish, Mystus bleekeri. Arch. Protistenkd. 106: 211 - 217.
- BHATT V. S., SIDDIQUI W. A. 1964: Four new species of Myxosporidia from the Indian fresh water fish, Ophiocephalus punctatus Bloch. J. Protozool. 11: 314 - 316.
- WU B. H., WANG S. X., JIANG N. C. 1988: [A new species Tetrauronema macropodus sp. nov. (gen. et fam. nov.) from freshwater fishes of China]. Acta Zootaxon. Sin. 13: 315 - 316. (In Chinese.)