Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Date of this Version
4-1998
Abstract
Three species of Myxobolus (Myxozoa, Myxosporea) occur in heart tissue of centrarchids. Myxobolus paralintoni Li and Desser, 1985 from Lepomis gibbosus in Algonquin Park and in Lake Erie, Ontario, has subcircular spores (in plane of spore length) in frontal view (11-13 μm long, 9-10 μm wide, and 5 μm thick) with a width-to-length ratio of 1:1.2. Myxobolus jollimorei n. sp. from Lepomis macrochirus in Lake Erie and in the Pascagoula River System, Mississippi, has subcircular spores (in plane of spore width) in frontal view (10.0-11.5 μm long, 12.0-14.5 μm wide, and 6.5-8.0 μm thick) with a width-to-length ratio of 1:0.8. Myxobolus manueli n. sp. from Pomoxis nigromaculatus in Lake Erie has spores (10-11 μm long, 8-10 μm wide, and 6.5-7.0 μm thick) that are nearly circular in frontal view but that have two distinct sublateral knobs along the sutural ridge and a width-to-length ratio of 1:1.2. All three species occur in the bulbus arteriosus of their hosts where they form small, saucer-shaped pseudocysts. Free spores were found free in the lumen of the heart and bulbus arteriosus, in bile, and in kidney tissue presses.
Comments
Published in the Journal of Parasitology (April 1998) 84(2): 371-374. Copyright 1998, the American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.