Genus Sphaerospora Thélohan, 1892

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphaerospora 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 [175].
• Podospora Chen & Hsieh, 1984.

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758 [CYPRINIDAE] Common Carp, European Carp, Golden Carp (kidney); Gerres subfasciatus (Cuvier, 1830) [GERREIDAE] Silver Biddy (syn. G. ovatus; kidney); Acanthopagrus australis (Günther, 1859) [SPARIDAE] Common Marine Bream, Yellowfin Bream (kidney); and Myxus elongatus Günther, 1861 [MUGILIDAE] Sand Mullet (kidney). See O'Donoghue and Adlard (2000).

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

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

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

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

Roubal, F.R. 1994. Infection of the kidney of Acanthopagrus australis (Pisces: Sparidae) with Sphaerospora sp. (Myxosporea), Prosorhynchus sp. (Digenea), and cysts of unknown origin. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 20: 83-93

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