''Kudoa kenti'' is a
myxosporea
Myxosporea is a class of microscopic parasites, belonging to the Myxozoa clade within Cnidaria. They have a complex life cycle which comprises vegetative forms in two hosts, an aquatic invertebrate (generally an annelid but sometimes a bryozoa ...
n
parasite
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has ...
of
marine fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...
es, first discovered in Australia from 4
pomacentrid species.
References
Further reading
*Griffin, Matt, et al. "Kudoa thunni from blackfin tuna (Thunnus atlanticus) harvested off the island of St. Kitts, West Indies." Journal of Parasitology100.1 (2014): 110-116.
*Mansour, Lamjed, et al. "Structural and molecular characterization of Kudoa quraishii n. sp. from the trunk muscle of the Indian mackerel Rastrelliger kanagurta (Perciforme, Scombridae) in Saudi Arabia coasts." Parasitology research 113.4 (2014): 1361-1370.
*Miller, T. L., and R. D. Adlard. "Unicapsula species (Myxosporea: Trilosporidae) of Australian marine fishes, including the description of Unicapsula andersenae n. sp. in five teleost families off Queensland, Australia." Parasitology research 112.8 (2013): 2945-2957.
External links
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Kudoidae
Animal parasites of fish
Veterinary parasitology
Animals described in 2009
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