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Dermocystidium
Genus of parasitic eukaryotes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dermocystidium is a genus of cyst-forming, eukaryotic fish parasites,[2] the causative agents of dermocystidiosis.
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Taxonomic history
The genus Dermocystidium was described in 1907. It was previously thought to be a genus of fungal parasites, related to the Thraustochytrida and Labyrinthulida (both those groups are now considered to be stramenopiles rather than fungi). Other biologists considered it to be a sporozoan protist.
It was subsequently identified as one of a group of fish parasites (the "DRIP clade") of previously uncertain affiliation, which were later identified as nonanimal, nonfungal opisthokonts,[3] and renamed as Ichthyosporea, and after expansion as Mesomycetozoa. Parasites of crustacea (Dermocystidium daphniae) and molluscs (Dermocystidium marinum) placed in this genus have been found to be likely a bacterium and an alveolate, respectively: Sayre, Gherna and Wergin (1983) concluded that Dermocystidium daphniae was likely identical to Pasteuria ramosa Metchnikoff, 1888,[4] while D. marinum has been reclassified as Perkinsus marinus.[5]
The frog parasite Dermocystidium ranae has been segregated as Amphibiocystidium ranae.[6]
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Species
- Dermocystidium aegyptiacus El-Mansy 2008
- Dermocystidium anguillae Spangenberg 1975— a gill parasite of eels
- Dermocystidium branchialis Léger 1914[7] — a gill parasite of salmonids
- Dermocystidium cochliopodii Valkanov 1967[7]
- Dermocystidium cyprini Červinka & Lom 1974[7] — a gill parasite of carp[8]
- Dermocystidium erschowii Garkavi, Denisov & Afanas'ev 1980— a skin parasite of carp
- Dermocystidium fennicum Pekkarinen et al. 2003— a skin parasite of perch [9]
- Dermocystidium gasterostei Elkan 1962[7] — a parasite of sticklebacks[10]
- Dermocystidium granulosum Sterba & Naumann 1970[7]
- Dermocystidium guyenotii Thélin 1955[7]
- Dermocystidium koi Hoshina & Sahara 1950[7] — a skin parasite of carp
- Dermocystidium kwangtungensis [11]
- Dermocystidium macrophagi van de Moer, Manier & Bouix 1988
- Dermocystidium nemachili [7]
- Dermocystidium penneri (Jay & Pohley 1981) Borteiro et al. 2018
- Dermocystidium percae Reichenbach-Klinke 1950[7] — a skin parasite of perch [9]
- Dermocystidium pusulum (Pérez 1907) Pérez 1908[7]
- Dermocystidium salmonis [7] — a gill parasite of salmon
- Dermocystidium sinensis [11]
- Dermocystidium sinipercae[12] — a parasite of Chinese perch
- Dermocystidium vejdovskyi Jírovec 1939[7] — a parasite of pike
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References
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