Saccosporidae

Saccosporidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Myxozoa
Class: Malacosporea
Canning, Curry, Feist, Longshaw & Okamura, 2000
Order: Malacovalvulida
Canning, Curry, Feist, Longshaw & Okamura, 2000
Family: Saccosporidae
Canning, Okamura & Curry, 1996
Genera

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Saccosporidae is a family of myxozoans. It is the only family within the class Malacosporea and has only five described species, whereas the other class of Myxozoa, Myxosporea, includes more than a thousand.

Taxonomy and systematics

The following species are known:

Description

Saccosporidae are parasites of fish and freshwater bryozoans. Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, the only representative of the group whose life cycle is well studied, causes proliferative disease of the kidneys in salmonids. Two stages of the life cycles of the two species in the genus Buddenbrockia are known. One of them is a saccular stage, similar to Tetracapsuloides. During the second stage the animals are mobile and superficially resemble minute worms. Buddenbrockia allmani parasitizes Lophopus crystallinus, while Buddenbrockia plumatellae parasitizes, in particular, Plumatella fungosa.

References

  1. ↑ "Subclass Malacosporea". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.Retrieved 2013-02-17..
  2. ↑ "Malacosporea". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.Retrieved 2013-02-17..
  3. ↑ Patra, Sneha; Hartigan, Ashlie; Morris, David J.; KodáDková, Alena; Holzer, Astrid S. (April 2017). "Description and experimental transmission of Tetracapsuloides vermiformis n. sp. (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) and guidelines for describing malacosporean species including reinstatement of Buddenbrockia bryozoides n. comb. (syn. Tetracapsula bryozoides )". Parasitology. 144 (4): 497–511. doi:10.1017/S0031182016001931. ISSN 0031-1820.