INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY - H. I. Shcherbak - 2008

PROTISTS - PROTISTA

PROTOZOA

MYXOSPORIDIANS

PHYLUM MYXOZOA (MYXOSPORIDIA)

Tissue or cavity parasites of fish and other cold-blooded vertebrates, less commonly of invertebrates. About a thousand species are known. The phylum includes a single Class — Myxosporea.

The most Characteristic Features of the phylum include the presence of multinucleate vegetative stages, such as amoeboid plasmodia; The formation of spores consisting of several Cells; and a specific life cycle involving gametic chromosome reduction.

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