Sphaerospora

Sphaerospora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Myxosporea
Order:	Bivalvulida
Family:	Sphaerosporidae
Genus:	Sphaerospora; Thélohan, 1892

Sphaerospora is a genus of parasitic cnidarians belonging to the family Sphaerosporidae.

The species of this genus are found in Europe and Northern America.

Species

There are 111 species assigned to Sphaerospora:

Sphaerospora abrami Patra, Bartošová-Sojková, Pecková, Fiala, Eszterbauer & Holzer, 2018
Sphaerospora alata Lisnerová, 2022
Sphaerospora aldrichettae Su & White, 1994
Sphaerospora amurensis Akhmerov, 1960
Sphaerospora angulata Fujita, 1912
Sphaerospora araii Arthur & Lom, 1985
Sphaerospora argentinensis Cantatore & Lisnerová, 2022
Sphaerospora armatura (Yoshino & Moser, 1974)
Sphaerospora bliccae Patra, Bartošová-Sojková, Pecková, Fiala, Eszterbauer & Holzer, 2018
Sphaerospora bramae El-Matbouli, Hoffmann & Kern, 1995
Sphaerospora branchialis Razmashkin & Skripchemko, 1967
Sphaerospora brevis (Polyanskii, 1955)
Sphaerospora brevoides (Zhao & Song, 2009)
Sphaerospora carassii Kudo, 1920
Sphaerospora caspialosae (Dogiel, 1939)
Sphaerospora chagasi (Nemeczek, 1926)
Sphaerospora colomani Baska, 1990
Sphaerospora compressa (Noble, 1939)
Sphaerospora coregoni El-Matbouli, Hoffmann & Kern, 1995
Sphaerospora corsulae Sarkar & Ghosh, 1991
Sphaerospora cristata Shulman, 1962
Sphaerospora ctenopharyngodoni Chen, 1998
Sphaerospora danubialus Molnár, 1991
Sphaerospora dentata Patra, Bartošová-Sojková, Pecková, Fiala, Eszterbauer & Holzer, 2018
Sphaerospora diminuta Li & Desser, 1985
Sphaerospora dissostichi Brickle, Kalavati & MacKenzie, 2001
Sphaerospora diversa Patra, Bartošová-Sojková, Pecková, Fiala, Eszterbauer & Holzer, 2018
Sphaerospora dogieli Shulman, 1962
Sphaerospora dykovae Gunter & Adlard, 2010
Sphaerospora elegans Thélohan, 1892
Sphaerospora elopi Patra, Bartošová-Sojková, Pecková, Fiala, Eszterbauer & Holzer, 2018
Sphaerospora elwhaiensis Jones, Fiala, Prosperi-Porta, House & Mumford, 2011
Sphaerospora epinepheli Supamattaya, Fischer-Scherl, Hoffmann & Boonyaratpalin, 1991
Sphaerospora erythroculteri (Hsieh & Gong, 1993)
Sphaerospora festivus Bittencourt, Ferreira, da Silva Videira, da Silva, da Silva, Hamoy, Carvalho & Matos, 2021
Sphaerospora formosa (Kovaleva & Gaevskaya, 1979)
Sphaerospora fugu (Tun, Yokoyama, Ogawa & Wakayabashi, 2000)
Sphaerospora gasterostei Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1920
Sphaerospora glomerosa (Davis, 1917)
Sphaerospora gobionis Lom, Pavlásková & Dyková, 1985
Sphaerospora gutta Patra, Bartošová-Sojková, Pecková, Fiala, Eszterbauer & Holzer, 2018
Sphaerospora hangzhouensis Li & Wu, 1983
Sphaerospora hankai Lom, Desser & Dyková, 1989
Sphaerospora hunanensis Chen, 1998
Sphaerospora hupehensis Li & Nie, 1973
Sphaerospora hypophthalmichthysis (Chen & Hsieh, 1984)
Sphaerospora ictaluri Hedrick, Mcdowell & Groff, 1990
Sphaerospora inaequalis Landsberg, 1987
Sphaerospora johnae Sarkar, 2010
Sphaerospora koreana (Cho & Kim, 2001)
Sphaerospora krogiusi (Konovalov & Schulman, 1965)
Sphaerospora kwantungensis Chen, 1998
Sphaerospora lieni Feng & Wang, 1990
Sphaerospora lobosa (Davis, 1917)
Sphaerospora luciopercae Moshu, 1992
Sphaerospora lutjani (Kpatcha, Diebakate & Toguebaye, 1996)
Sphaerospora mackenzii (Kalavati & Narayana Rao, 2005)
Sphaerospora markewitschi Donec, 1962
Sphaerospora masovica Cohn, 1902
Sphaerospora mayi Moser, Kent & Dennis, 1989
Sphaerospora melenensis Fomena, Marques & Bouix, 1993
Sphaerospora minima Kashkovsky, 1974
Sphaerospora minuta Nie & Li, 1992
Sphaerospora molnari Lom, Dyková, Pavlásková & Grupcheva, 1983
Sphaerospora motemarini Holzer, Pecková, Patra, Brennan, Yanes-Roca & Main, 2013
Sphaerospora mugili Yurakhno & Maltsev, 2002
Sphaerospora mugilis (Sitja-Bobadilla & Alvarez-Pellitero, 1995)
Sphaerospora notropis Fantham, Porter & Richardson, 1939
Sphaerospora ohlmacheri (Gurley, 1893)
Sphaerospora ojiroveci Dyková & Lom, 1997
Sphaerospora olsoni Sanders, Jaramillo, Ashford, Feist, Lafferty & Kent, 2015
Sphaerospora oncorhynchi Kent, Whitaker & Margolis, 1993
Sphaerospora ovophila Xiao & Desser, 1997
Sphaerospora paulini Lom, Desser & Dyková, 1989
Sphaerospora perlata (Gurley, 1893)
Sphaerospora pernicialis Léger, 1930
Sphaerospora petruschewskii Shulman, 1962
Sphaerospora plagiognathopis (Chen & Hsieh, 1984)
Sphaerospora poljanskii Kulemina, 1969
Sphaerospora ranae (Morelle, 1929)
Sphaerospora reichenowi Jacob, 1953
Sphaerospora renalis
Sphaerospora renicola (Thélohan, 1895)
Sphaerospora rostrata Thélohan, 1895
Sphaerospora rota Zaika, 1961
Sphaerospora rutili Patra, Bartošová-Sojková, Pecková, Fiala, Eszterbauer & Holzer, 2018
Sphaerospora sangmelimaensis Fomena & Bouix, 1994
Sphaerospora sapae Donec, 1962
Sphaerospora saurogobii Ma, 1998
Sphaerospora scardinii El-Matbouli & Hoffmann, 1992
Sphaerospora schulmani (Rumyantsev, 1997)
Sphaerospora sebasta Zhao, Al-Farraj, AL-Rasheid & Song, 2015
Sphaerospora sevastopoli Naidenova, 1970
Sphaerospora siluri Molnar, 1993
Sphaerospora simplex (Kovaljova & Zubchenko, 1984)
Sphaerospora sinensis Chen, 1998
Sphaerospora sparidarum (Sitjá-Bobadilla & Alvarez-Pellitero, 2001)
Sphaerospora sparis (Sitja-Bobadilla & Alvarez-Pellitero, 1995)
Sphaerospora sphaerica Dogiel, 1948
Sphaerospora sphaerula (Noble, 1939)
Sphaerospora squalii Patra, Bartošová-Sojková, Pecková, Fiala, Eszterbauer & Holzer, 2018
Sphaerospora subelegans Fantham, 1930
Sphaerospora subsphaerica (Zaika, 1965)
Sphaerospora terraenovae Lisnerová, 2022
Sphaerospora testicularis Sitjà-Bobadilla & Alvarez-Pellitero, 1990
Sphaerospora tilapiae Fomena, Marques & Bouix, 1993
Sphaerospora tincae Plehn, 1925
Sphaerospora toxabramis Wu & Li, 1986
Sphaerospora truttae Fischer, Scherl, El-Matbouli & Hoffmann, 1986
Sphaerospora undulans Meglitsch, 1970
Sphaerospora yiduensis (Gong & Xie, 2000)

References

1 2 "Sphaerospora Thélohan, 1892". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
↑ "Sphaerospora Thélohan, 1892". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 22 August 2026.

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[GBIF-1] 1 2 "Sphaerospora Thélohan, 1892". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 10 June 2021.

[CoL-2] "Sphaerospora Thélohan, 1892". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 22 August 2026.