Ellipsomyxa

Ellipsomyxa is a genus of cnidarian that is part of the family Ceratomyxidae.^[1]

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Ellipsomyxa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Myxozoa
Order:	Bivalvulida
Family:	Ceratomyxidae
Genus:	Ellipsomyxa Køie, 2003^[1]
Species
Ellipsomyxa gobii Køie, 2003 (type)^[1] Ellipsomyxa syngnathi Køie & Karlsbakk, 2009^[2] Ellipsomyxa fusiformis Davis, 1917^[3] Ellipsomyxa manilensis Heiniger & Adlard, 2014^[4] Ellipsomyxa apogoni Heiniger & Adlard, 2014^[4] Ellipsomyxa adlardi Whipps & Font, 2013^[5] Ellipsomyxa arothroni Heiniger & Adlard, 2014^[4] Ellipsomyxa mugilis Sitjà-Bobadilla & Alvarez-Pellitero, 1993^[6] Ellipsomyxa gobioides Azevedo, Videira, Casal, Matos, Oliveira, Al-Quraishy & Matos, 2013^[7] Ellipsomyxa kalthoumi Thabet, Tlig-Zouari, Al Omar & Mansour, 2016^[8] Ellipsomyxa nigropunctatis Heiniger & Adlard, 2014^[4] Ellipsomyxa arariensis Da Silva, Matos, Lima, Furtado, Hamoy & Matos, 2018^[9] Ellipsomyxa amazonensis Zatti, Atkinson, Maia, Correa, Bartholomew & Adriano, 2018^[10]

[1]
Koie, M. (2003). Ellipsomyxa gobii gen. et sp. n. (Myxozoa: Ceratomyxidae) in the common goby Pomatoschistus microps (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Denmark. Folia Parasitologica, 50(4): 269–271.
[2]
Køie, M., & Karlsbakk, E. (2009). Ellipsomyxa syngnathi sp. n. (Myxozoa, Myxosporea) in the pipefish Syngnathus typhle and S. rostellatus (Teleostei, Syngnathidae) from Denmark. Parasitology Research, 105(6): 1611–1616. doi:10.1007/s00436-009-1598-3
[3]
Davis, H. S. (1917). The Myxosporidia of the Beaufort region, a systematic and biological study. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, 35, 199–252.
[4]
Heiniger, H., & Adlard, R. D. (2014). Relatedness of novel species of Myxidium Bütschli, 1882, Zschokkella Auerbach, 1910 and Ellipsomyxa Køie, 2003 (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida) from the gall bladders of marine fishes (Teleostei) from Australian waters. Systematic Parasitology, 87(1): 47–72. doi:10.1007/s11230-013-9454-3
[5]
Whipps, C. M., & Font, W. F. (2013). Interaction of Two Myxozoan Parasites from Naked Goby Gobiosoma bosc, in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. Journal of Parasitology, 99(3): 441–447. doi:10.1645/12-49.1
[6]
Sitjà-Bobadilla, A., & Alvarez-Pellitero, P. (1993). Zschokkella mugilis N. Sp. (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida) from Mullets (Teleostei: Mugilidae) of Mediterranean Waters: Light and Electron Microscopic Description. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 40(6): 755–764. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1993.tb04471.x
[7]
Azevedo, C., Videira, M., Casal, G., Matos, P., Oliveira, E., Al-Quraishy, S., & Matos, E. (2013). Fine Structure of the Plasmodia and Myxospore of Ellipsomyxa gobioides n. sp. (Myxozoa) Found in the Gallbladder of Gobioides broussonnetii (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Lower Amazon River. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 60(5): 490–496. doi:10.1111/jeu.12056
[8]
Thabet, A., Tlig-Zouari, S., Al Omar, S. Y., & Mansour, L. (2016). Molecular and morphological characterisation of two species of the genus Ellipsomyxa Køie, 2003 (Ceratomyxidae) from the gall-bladder of Liza saliens (Risso) off Tunisian coasts of the Mediterranean. Systematic Parasitology, 93(6): 601–611. doi:10.1007/s11230-016-9647-7
[9]
Da Silva, D. T., Matos, P. S., Lima, A. M., Furtado, A. P., Hamoy, I., & Matos, E. R. (2018). Ellipsomyxa arariensis n. sp. (Myxozoa: Ceratomyxidae), a new myxozoan parasite of Pygocentrus nattereri Kner, 1858 (Teleostei: Characidae) and Pimelodus ornatus Kner, 1858 (Teleostei: Pimelodidae) from Marajó Island, in the Brazilian Amazon region. Parasitology Research, 117(11): 3537–3545. doi:10.1007/s00436-018-6051-z
[10]
Zatti, S. A., Atkinson, S. D., Maia, A. A., Corrêa, L. L., Bartholomew, J. L., & Adriano, E. A. (2018). Novel Myxobolus and Ellipsomyxa species (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) parasiting Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) in the Amazon basin, Brazil. Parasitology International, 67(5): 612–621. doi:10.1016/j.parint.2018.06.005

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