Genus Ceratomyxa Thélohan, 1892

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• Ceratomyxa Thélohan, P. 1892. Observation sur les myxosporidies et éssai de classification de ces organismes. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris 8 4: 165-178 [171, 175].
• Leptotheca Thélohan, P. 1895. Recherches sur les Myxosporidies. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique 26: 100-394, 3 pls [332].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gunter, N. & Adlard, R. 2010. The demise of Leptotheca Thelohan, 1895 (Myxozoa: Myxosporea: Ceratomyxidae) and assignment of its species to Ceratomyxa Thelohan, 1892 (Myxosporea: Ceratomyxidae), Ellipsomyxa Koie, 2003 (Myxosporea: Ceratomyxidae), Myxobolus Butschli, 1882 and Sphaerospora Thelohan, 1892 (Myxosporea: Sphaerosporidae). Systematic Parasitology 75: 81-104

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from Herklotsichthys castelnaui (Ogilby, 1897) [CLUPEIDAE] Silver Herring (gall bladder); Centropogon australis (White, 1790) [SCORPAENIDAE] Southern Fortescue (gall bladder); Epinephelus quoyanus (Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830) [SERRANIDAE] Longfinned Wire Netting Cod, Longfin Grouper (gall bladder); Plectropomus leopardus (Lacepede, 1802) [SERRANIDAE] Leopard Coral Trout (gall bladder); Lutjanus bohar (Forsskål, 1775) [LUTJANIDAE] Red Bass (gall bladder); Acanthopagrus australis (Günther, 1859) [SPARIDAE] Common Marine Bream, Yellowfin Bream (gall bladder); Scorpis lineolatus Kner, 1865 [SCORPIDIDAE] Silver Sweep; Chaetodon trifasciatis Park, 1797 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Redfin Butterflyfish (gall bladder); Labroides australis Randall, 1981 [LABRIDAE] Southern Tubelip (gall bladder); Sufflamen chrysopterus (Bloch & Schnieider, 1801) [BALISTIDAE] Flagtail Triggerfish, Halfmoon Triggerfish (syn. S. chrysopterum; gall bladder); Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus, 1758 [OSTRACIIDAE] Yellow Boxfish (gall bladder); and Labroides sp. [LABRIDAE] (gall bladder). See O'Donoghue and Adlard (2000).

Unidentified Ceratomyxa species originally identifed as Leptotheca species recorded from Terapon jarbua (Forsskål, 1775) [TERAPONIDAE] Crescent Grunter (gall bladder). See O'Donoghue and Adlard (2000).

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Lester, R.J.G. & Sewell, K.B. 1989. Checklist of parasites from Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Australian Journal of Zoology 37: 101-128

Lom, J., Rohde, K., & Dykova, I. 1992. Studies on protozoan parasite of Australian fishes I. New species of the genera Coccomyxa Leger et Hesse. 1907, Ortholinea Shulman, 1962 and Kudoa Meglitsch, 1947 (Myxozoa, Myxosporea). Folia Parasitologica. Prague 39: 289-306

Moser, M., Kent, M.L. & Dennis, D. 1989. Gall bladder Myxosporea in coral reef fishes from Heron Island, Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 37: 1-13

O'Donoghue, P.J. 1997. Protozoan parasites of wildlife in south-east Queensland. pp. 119-136 in Tribe, A. (ed.). Proceedings of the 1997 Conference of the Australian Association of Veterinary Conservation Biologists. Brisbane : Australian Veterinary Association.

O'Donoghue, P.J. & Adlard, R.D. 2000. Catalogue of protozoan parasites recorded in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45: 1-163

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