Ceratomyxa arcuata Thelohan 1892

• Main Author: Laamiri, Sayef
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Myxozoa; Myxosporea; Bivalvulida; Ceratomyxidae; Ceratomyxa; Ceratomyxa arcuata; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5626240; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038887C4FFC6FFDFB3BBF93C83FA4151

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 fresh spores). Mature spores were ...