Genus of marine parasites
Myxobolus is agenus ofmyxozoa that includes important parasites of fish[ 1] likeMyxobolus cerebralis . The genus ispolyphyletic , with members scattered throughout the myxozoa. Some stages ofMyxobolus species were previously thought to be different organisms entirely, but are now united in this group. Some fish species, such as thethicklip grey mullet , can harbour a dozen ofMyxobolus species.[ 2]
Source:World Register of Marine Species [ 3]
Myxobolus acanthogobii Hoshina, 1952 Myxobolus acanthopagri Lom & Dyková, 1994 Myxobolus achmerovi Shulman, 1966 Myxobolus acutus (Fujita, 1912) Myxobolus adeli Yurakhno & Ovcharenko, 2014 Myxobolus aeglefini Auerbach, 1906 Myxobolus aisanensis Chen in Chen & Ma, 1998 Myxobolus aldrichetti Su & White, 1994 Myxobolus algonquinensis Xiao & Desser, 1997 Myxobolus aligarhensis Bhatt & Siddiqui, 1964 Myxobolus anatolicus Pekmezci, Yardimci, Yilmaz & Polat, 2014 Myxobolus arabicus Kardousha & El-Tantawy, 2002 Myxobolus asymmetricus (Parisi, 1912) Myxobolus aureatus Ward, 1919 Myxobolus balantiocheili Levsen, Alvik & Grotmol, 2004 Myxobolus bartoni Kalavati, Brickle & MacKenzie, 2000 Myxobolus baskai Molnár, Székely, Mohamed & Shaharom-Harrison, 2006 Myxobolus bilineatum Bond, 1938 Myxobolus bizerti Bahri & Marques, 1996 Myxobolus branchialis (Markewitsch, 1932) Myxobolus braziliensis Casal, Matos & Azevedo, 1996 Myxobolus cephalus Iverson, Chitty & Van Meter, 1971 Myxobolus chengkiangensis Ma, 1998 Myxobolus cheni Shulman, 1962 Myxobolus chiungchowensis Chen in Chen & Ma, 1998 Myxobolus conei Lom & Dyková, 1994 Myxobolus cultus Yokoyama, Ogawa & Wakabayashi, 1995 Myxobolus cuneus Adriano, Arana & Cordeiro, 2006 Myxobolus cyprinicola Reuss, 1906 Myxobolus diagrammae Kpatcha, Diebakate, Faye & Toguebaye, 1995 Myxobolus diaphanus Fantham, Porter & Richardson, 1940 Myxobolus episquamalis Egusa, Maeno & Sorimachi, 1990 Myxobolus etropli Rajendran, Vijayan & Alavandi, 1998 Myxobolus exiguus Thélohan, 1895 Myxobolus ganguli Sarkar, Haldar & Chakraborti, 1982 Myxobolus gayerae Molnar, Marton, Eszterbauer & Szekely, 2007 Myxobolus ginbuna Kato, Kasai, Tomochi, Li & Sato, 2017 Myxobolus girellae Lom & Dyková, 1994 Myxobolus gobii Naidenova, 1975 Myxobolus goensis Eiras & D'Souza, 2004 Myxobolus goreensis Fall, Kpatcha, Diebakate, Faye & Toguebaye, 1997 Myxobolus grandiintercapsularis Shulman, 1962 Myxobolus hani Faye, Kpatcha, Diebakate, Fall & Toguebaye, 1999 Myxobolus hannensis Fall, Kpatcha, Diebakate, Faye & Toguebaye, 1997 Myxobolus hudsonis (Bond, 1938) Myxobolus hypseleotris Chen in Chen & Ma, 1998 Myxobolus ichkeulensis Bahri & Marques, 1996 Myxobolus improvisus Izyumova in Shulman, 1966 Myxobolus inflatus Chen in Chen & Ma, 1998 Myxobolus insidiosus Wyatt & Pratt, 1963 Myxobolus klamathellus Atkinson & Banner, 2016 Myxobolus lalithakumarii Gunter & Adlard, 2010 Myxobolus latipinnacola Wold & Iversen, 1978 Myxobolus lintoni Gurley, 1893 Myxobolus longi Eiras, Molnar & Lu, 2005 Myxobolus macropodusi (Chen in Chen & Ma, 1998) Myxobolus mahendrae Sarkar, 1986 Myxobolus merlucii (Perugia, 1891) Myxobolus mexicanus Yoshino & Noble, 1973 Myxobolus monopterus (Chen in Chen & Ma, 1998) Myxobolus muelleri Bütschli, 1882 Myxobolus mugauratus Landsberg & Lom, 1991 Myxobolus mugcephalus (Narasimhamurti, 1980) Myxobolus mugchelo Landsberg & Lom, 1991 Myxobolus mugilis (Perugia, 1891) Myxobolus mystusius Sarkar, 1986 Myxobolus narasii (Narasimhamurti, 1970) Myxobolus neurophilus (Guilford, 1963) Myxobolus nile Eiras, Molnar & Lu, 2005 Myxobolus ophicephali Bhatt & Siddiqui, 1964 Myxobolus pangasii Molnár, Székely, Mohamed & Shaharom-Harrison, 2006 Myxobolus paratoyamai Kato, Kasai, Tomochi, Li & Sato, 2017 Myxobolus parenzani Landsberg & Lom, 1991 Myxobolus parvus Shulman, 1962 Myxobolus percae Fantham, Porter & Richardson, 1939 Myxobolus perforata Ali, Al-Rasheid, Sakran, Abdel-Baki & Abdel-Ghaffar, 2002 Myxobolus petenensis Frey, Cone & Duobinis-Gray, 1998 Myxobolus petruschewskii Zhukov, 1964 Myxobolus pleuronectidae Hahn, 1917 Myxobolus purkynjei Lom & Dyková, 1994 Myxobolus raibauti Fall, Kpatcha, Diebakate, Faye & Toguebaye, 1997 Myxobolus rhinogobii Chen in Chen & Ma, 1998 Myxobolus rhodei Lom & Dyková, 1994 Myxobolus saranai (Tripathi, 1953) Myxobolus scleroperca (Guilford, 1963) Myxobolus shekel [ 4] Myxobolus spinacurvatura Maeno, Sorimachi, Ogawa & Egusa, 1990 Myxobolus spirosulcatus Maeno, Sorimachi, Ogawa & Kearn, 1995 Myxobolus stomum Ali, Abdel-Baki, Sakran, Entzeroth & Abdel-Ghaffar, 2003 Myxobolus subtecalis (Bond, 1938) Myxobolus tanakai Kato, Kasai, Tomochi, Li & Sato, 2017 Myxobolus tapajosi Zatti, Atkinson, Maia, Correa, Bartholomew & Adriano, 2018 Myxobolus tripterygii (Laird, 1953) Myxobolus vanivilasae Seenappa & Manohar, 1980 ^ Fall, M.; Kpatcha, K.P.; Diebakate, C.; Faye, N.; Toguebaye, B.S (1997)."Observations sur des myxosporidies (Myxozoa) du genreMyxobolus parasites deMugil cephalus (Poisson, Téléostéen) du Sénégal" .Parasite .4 (2):173– 180.doi :10.1051/parasite/1997042173 .ISSN 1252-607X . ^ Guimarães, José; Casal, Graça; Alves, Ângela; Araújo, Catarina; Rocha, Sónia (2023)."Myxozoan survey of thicklip grey mulletChelon labrosus reinforces successful radiation ofMyxobolus in mugiliform hosts" .Parasite .30 : 26.doi :10.1051/parasite/2023029 .PMC 10318956 . ^ "Myxobolus Bütschli, 1882" .WoRMS .World Register of Marine Species . 2018. 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