Ceratomyxa arcuata Thelohan 1892

• Main Author: Laamiri, Sayef
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Myxozoa; Myxosporea; Bivalvulida; Ceratomyxidae; Ceratomyxa; Ceratomyxa arcuata; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5626240; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5626240

Ceratomyxa arcuata Thélohan, 1892 Type host: Gaidropsarus mediterraneus (syn. Motella tricirrata), shore rockling (Gadiformes: Gadidae). Other hosts: Pagellus bogaraveo (Brünnich, 1756) (syn. P. centrodontus) blackspot sea bream; Callionymus lyra (Linnaeus, 1758) dragonet; Chromis chromis (Linnaeus, 1758) (syn. Heliases chromis) damselfish; Crenilabrus melops (Linnaeus, 1758) corkwing wrasse; Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758) Mediterranean sea bass; Gadus morhua (Linnaeus, 1758) Atlantic cod; Gobius paganellus (Linnaeus, 1758) rock goby; Merlangius merlangus (Linnaeus, 1758) whiting; Parophidium vasalli (Risso) (syn. Ophidium vasalli); Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) goldline sea bream; Scorpaena scrofa (Linnaeus, 1758) red scorpionfish; S. porcus (Linnaeus, 1758) black scorpionfish; S. notata (Rafinesque, 1810) small red scorpionfish; Uranoscopus scaber (Linnaeus, 1758) Atlantic stargazer. Type locality: Roscoff, Atlantic coast of France. Other localities: Northeast Atlantic, Black Sea, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Tunis, Tunisia (36 ° 45 ’N, 10 ° 15 ’E). Site of infection: Within gall bladder Prevalence: the overall prevalence is 4.5 % (15 / 330) (Fig. 9). None fish 0% (0/ 120) recolted from Bay of Bizerte, was infected with C. arcuata. The infection was confined only at Gulf of Tunis with prevalence 7.14 % (15 / 210) distributed as following, 03/ 2012: 0% (0/ 30); 04/ 2012: 0% (0/ 30);05/ 2012: 10 % (3 / 30); 06/ 2012: 10 % (3 / 30); 07/ 2012: 16.7 % (5 / 30); 08/ 2012: 0% (0/ 30); 05/ 2013: 15 % (3 / 20); 06/ 2013: 10 % (1 / 10) (see Table 4). Mean intensity: 70.2 ± 14.6 spores/infected fish (+++++) (Fig. 10) (see Table 4). Type-material: Digitized photos of syntype spores were deposited in the parasitological collection of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris, Coll. No. ZS 116. Description Vegetative stages. Polymorphous but generally club-shaped. Only one post-mature disporic plasmodium was seen in this study when the spores were being separated (Fig. 1 A). Spores (n = 30 ...