Loma (microsporidian)

Loma
Scientific classification
Division:	Microsporidia
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Genus:	Loma; Morrison & Sprague, 1981

Loma is a genus of microsporidian parasites, infecting fish. The taxonomic position of Loma in the family has been questioned by DNA sequencing results.

Species include

- formerly placed in Glugea
- the type species
- a parasite of the cichlid fish, Oreochromis niloticus
Loma morhua
- parasite of the ophichthid fish, Myrophis platyrhynchus^[1]
Loma salmonae - a parasite of Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus spp.^[2]
- a parasite of a marine trichiurid fish, Trichiurus savala

References[]

^ Carlos Azevedoa & Edilson Matos (2002), "Fine structure of a new species, Loma myrophis (Phylum Microsporidia), parasite of the Amazonian fish Myrophis platyrhynchus (Teleostei, Ophichthidae)", European Journal of Protistology, 37 (4): 445–452, doi:10.1078/0932-4739-00843
^ Shaw, Rw; Kent, Ml; Adamson, Ml (Jun 1998), "Modes of transmission of Loma salmonae (Microsporidia)", Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 33 (2): 151–6, doi:10.3354/dao033151, ISSN 0177-5103, PMID 9722404

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[1] Carlos Azevedoa & Edilson Matos (2002), "Fine structure of a new species, Loma myrophis (Phylum Microsporidia), parasite of the Amazonian fish Myrophis platyrhynchus (Teleostei, Ophichthidae)", European Journal of Protistology, 37 (4): 445–452, doi:10.1078/0932-4739-00843

[2] Shaw, Rw; Kent, Ml; Adamson, Ml (Jun 1998), "Modes of transmission of Loma salmonae (Microsporidia)", Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 33 (2): 151–6, doi:10.3354/dao033151, ISSN 0177-5103, PMID 9722404

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