WoRMS taxon details
Myxozoa
AphiaID: 146271
AphiaID: 146271
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | ||||||||||
| Rank | Phylum | ||||||||||
| Parent | Animalia | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Myxospora | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Hine, P.M. (in press). Myxozoans. In Gordon, D.P.: The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa | Class Myxosporea | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, brackish, fresh | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
habitat: Myxozoa are obligate parasites of marine and freshwater fish and freshwater bryozoans. They have also been reported rarely in amphibians, reptiles and in the brain of a mole. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146271 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Myxozoa. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146271 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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