''Bonamia'' is a genus of
protists
A protist () is any eukaryotic organism (that is, an organism whose cells contain a cell nucleus) that is not an animal, plant, or fungus. While it is likely that protists share a common ancestor (the last eukaryotic common ancestor), the excl ...
belonging to the family
Haplosporiidae.
The genus has
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
.
Species:
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Bonamia exitiosa''
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Bonamia ostreae
''Bonamia ostreae'' is a parasitic Rhizaria in the phylum Haplosporidia that can cause lethal infections in shellfish, particularly the European flat oyster, ''Ostrea edulis''. Infection in oysters rarely results in clinical signs of disease and ...
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Bonamia perspora''
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Bonamia roughleyi''
References
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Endomyxa