Glugea

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Glugea

Glugea is a genus of microsporidian parasites, predominantly infecting fish.

Species include

  • - a parasite of the fish Myctophum punctatum
  • - a parasite of the greater sand eel Hyperoplus lanceolatus (a teleost fish)
  • - a parasite of the seahorse Hippocampus erectus
  • - a parasite of the smelts Osmerus eperlanus and Osmerus mordax
  • - a parasite of the fish Merluccius hubbsi
  • - a parasite of the yellowfin hind, Cephalopholis hemistiktos[1]
  • - a parasite of fish of the genus Sardinella[2]
  • - a parasite of fish of the genus Trisopterus
  • - a parasite of the winter flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus (a pleuronectid flatfish)
  • - a parasite of the Australian marine teleost fish,

References[]

  1. ^ Abdel-Baki, Abdel-Azeem S.; Al-Quraishy, Saleh; Rocha, Sonia; Dkhil, Mohamed A.; Casal, Graca; Azevedo, Carlos (2015). "Ultrastructure and phylogeny of Glugea nagelia sp. n. (Microsporidia: Glugeidae), infecting the intestinal wall of the yellowfin hind, Cephalopholis hemistiktos (Actinopterygii: Serranidae), from the Red Sea". Folia Parasitologica. 62. doi:10.14411/fp.2015.007. ISSN 0015-5683. PMID 25960551. open access
  2. ^ Mansour, Lamjed; Thabet, Aouatef; Harrath, Abdel Halim; y. Al Omar, Suliman; Mukhtar, Ahmed; r. Sayed, Shaban; Abdel-Baki, Abdel-Azeem Sh. (2016). "New microsporidia, Glugea sardinellensis n sp (Microsporea, Glugeida) found in Sardinella aurita Valenciennes, 1847, collected off Tunisian coasts". Acta Protozoologica. 55 (4). doi:10.4467/16890027AP.16.028.6097.


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