[New Species of Microsporidia from the Gallbladder of Deep-sea Fishes]

Overview

Journal Parazitologiia

Publisher Izdatelstvo Nauka

Specialty Parasitology

Date 1976 Nov 1

PMID 828719

Citations 3

Authors

V R Dubina

L S Isakov

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Abstract

Two new species of myxosporidians with gigantic spores are described from the gall bladder of Alepocephalus australis caught at 1500 m depth. Both species differ in gigantic sizes of spores that apparently is characteristic of myxosporidians of fishes inhabiting such great depths.

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