WoRMS taxon details

Myxozoa

146271  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146271)

(Grassé, 1970)
accepted
Class
Myxospora · unaccepted
Subclass Myxosporea
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
WoRMS (2023). Myxozoa. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146271 on 2023-05-28
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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]   

additional source Cairns, S.D.; Gershwin, L.; Brook, F.J.; Pugh, P.; Dawson, E.W.; Ocaña O.V.; Vervoort, W.; Williams, G.; Watson, J.E.; Opresko, D.M.; Schuchert, P.; Hine, P.M.; Gordon, D.P.; Campbell, H.J.; Wright, A.J.; Sánchez, J.A.; Fautin, D.G. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
From other sources
Classification Myxozoa was moved under Cnidaria as a Class, and Malacosporea and Myxosporea were includes as its two subclasses [details]

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]
LanguageName 
Japanese ミクソゾア亜門  [details]