Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Date of this Version
10-1976
Abstract
The myxosporidan Fabespora vermicola sp. n., tentatively placed in the family Myxidiidae, is described from the digenean Crassicutis archosargi in an estuarine fish. The myxosporidan becomes the first known from a platyhelminth and the third from an invertebrate. It differs from the only other member of the genus primarily by having polar filaments 32 to 44 μm long rather than about 8 μm, and an infection with it can stop reproduction in the digenean host either by physical means or by necrosis of gametes.
Comments
Published in the Journal of Parasitology (October 1976) 62(5): 680-684. Copyright 1976, the American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.