Species Marteilia sydneyi Perkins & Wolf, 1976

Museums

Regional Maps

• Marteilia sydneyi Perkins, F.O. & Wolf, P.H. 1976. Fine structure of Marteilia sydneyi sp. n. — haplosporidian pathogen of Australian oysters. Journal of Parasitology 62: 528-538.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Saccostrea cucullata (Born, 1778) [OSTREIDAE] Hooded Oyster (syn. Cassostrea amasa); Saccostrea glomerata (Gould, 1880) [OSTREIDAE] Sydney Rock Oyster, Moreton Bay Rock Oyster (syn. Crassostrea commercialis, S. commercialis; hepatopancreas (+ PCR)); Striostrea mytiloides (Lamarck, 1819) [OSTREIDAE] Tropical Oyster, Blacklip Oyster (syn. Saccostrea echinata)).

Associated Fauna References

Adlard, R.D. & Ernst, I. 1995. Extended range of the oyster pathogen Marteilia sydneyi. Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists 15: 119-121 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Anderson, T.J., Adlard, R.D. & Lester, R.J.G. 1995. Molecular diagnosis of Marteilia sydneyi (Paramyxea) in Sydney rock oysters, Saccostrea commercialis (Angas). Journal of Fish Diseases 18: 507-510 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Anderson, T.J., Wesche, S. & Lester, R.J.G. 1994. Are outbreaks of Marteilia sydneyi in Sydney rock oysters, Saccostrea commercialis, triggered by a drop in environmental pH? Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 45: 1285-1287 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Anderson I.G. 1990. Diseases in Australian invertebrate aquaculture. pp. 38-48 in [Anon]. Fifth International Colloquium on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control. Adelaide : Society for Invertebrate Pathology. (Saccostrea glomerata; Striostrea mytiloides)

Anderson T.J., McCaul T.F., Boulo V., Robledo J.A.F. & Lester R.J.G. 1994. Light and electron immunohistochemical assays on paramyxean parasites. Aquatic Living Resources 7: 47-52 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Anderson T.J. & Lester R.J.G. 1992. Sporulation of Marteilioides branchialis n. sp. (Paramyxea) in the Sydney rock oyster, Saccrostrea commercialis: an electron microscope study. Journal of Protozoology 39: 502-508 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Berthe, F.C.J., LeRoux, F., Adlard, R.D. & Figueras, A. 2004. Marteiliosis in molluscs: a review. Aquatic Living Resources 17: 433-448 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Bezemer, B., Butt, D., Nell, J., Adlard, R. & Raftos, D. 2006. Breeding for QX disease resistance negatively selects one form of the defensive enzyme, phenoloxidase, in Sydney rock oysters. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 20: 627-636 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Bondad-Reantaso, M.G., Subasinghe, R.P., Arthur, J.R., Ogawa, K., Chinabut, S., Adlard, R., Tan, Z. & Shariff, M. 2005. Disease and health management in Asian aquaculture. Veterinary Parasitology 132(3-4): 249-272 [Date published 30 Sept.] (Saccostrea glomerata)

Bradbury, P.C. 1994. Parasitic protozoa of molluscs and crustacea. pp. 139-264 in Kreier, J.P. (ed.). Parasitic Protozoa. San Diego : Academic Press 2. (Saccostrea glomerata)

Hine, P.M. 1996. Southern hemisphere mollusc diseases and an overview of associated risk assessment problems. Scientific and Technical Review — International Office of Epizootics 15: 563-577 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Hine, P.M. & Thorne, T. 2000. A survey of some parasites and diseases of several species of bivalve mollusc in northern Western Australia. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 40: 67-78 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Jones, J.B. & Creeper, J. 2006. Diseases of pearl oysters and other molluscs: a Western Australian perspective. Journal of Shellfish Research 25: 233-238 (Saccostrea glomerata; Saccostrea cucullata)

Kleeman, S.N., Adlard, R.D., Zhu, X. & Gasser, R.B. 2004. Mutation scanning analysis of Marteilia sydneyi populations from different geographical locations in eastern Australia. Molecular and Cellular Probes 18: 133-138 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Kleeman, S.N. & Adlard, R.D. 2000. Molecular detection of Marteilia sydneyi, pathogen of Sydney rock oysters. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 40: 137-146 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Langdon, J.S. 1988. Diseases of introduced Australian fish in Fish Diseases. Refresher Course for Veterinarians. Post Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science: University of Sydney. pp. 225-276 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Lester, R.J.G. 1990. Diseases of cultured molluscs in Australia. pp. 207-216 in Advances in Tropical Aquaculture, Actes de Colloques. Aquacop IFREMER: Tahiti. (Saccostrea glomerata)

Nell, J.A. & Smith, I.R. 1988. Management, production and disease interactions in oyster culture. pp. 127-133 in Fish diseases. Refresher course for Veterinarians. Post Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science: University of Sydney. (Saccostrea glomerata)

Perkins, F.O. & Wolf, P.H. 1976. Fine structure of Marteilia sydneyi sp. n. — haplosporidian pathogen of Australian oysters. Journal of Parasitology 62: 528-538 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Peters, R. & Raftos, D.A. 2003. The role of phenoloxidase suppression in QX disease outbreaks among Sydney rock oysters (Saccostrea glomerata). Aquaculture 223: 29-39 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Roubal, F.R., Masel, J. & Lester, R.J.G. 1989. Studies on Marteilia sydneyi, agent of QX disease in the Sydney rock oyster, Saccostrea commercialis, with implications for its life cycle. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 40: 155-167 (Saccostrea glomerata)

Wolf, P.H. 1977. Diseases and parasites in Australian commercial shellfish. Haliotis 8: 75-83 (Saccostrea glomerata; Striostrea mytiloides)

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