Folia Parasitologica 50[4] 269-271 (2003) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2003.045

Ellipsomyxa gobii gen. et sp. n. (Myxozoa: Ceratomyxidae) in the common goby Pomatoschistus microps (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Denmark

Marianne Køie

Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, DK-3000 Helsingør, Denmark

A new myxosporean species Ellipsomyxa gobii gen. et sp. n. is described from the common goby Pomatoschistus microps (Krøyer) (Perciformes, Gobiidae). Plasmodia with long branched pseudopodia in the gallbladder develop to subspherical bisporous plasmodia. The myxospores were found in the gallbladder, and the hepatic and bile ducts. The new genus is characterised by the morphology of the myxospores. The myxospores have smooth thin valves elongated in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the straight central transverse indistinct sutural line. The two spherical polar capsules open some distance from the sutural line on opposite sides. The new genus thereby differs from Leptotheca Thélohan, 1895. Ellipsomyxa gobii is tentatively placed in the Ceratomyxidae.

Keywords: Ellipsomyxa gobii, Myxozoa, Pomatoschistus microps, Denmark

Received: July 25, 2003; Accepted: October 16, 2003; Published: December 1, 2003  Show citation