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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060
EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 106, No. 5, 2011, pp. 557-561
Bioline Code: oc11095
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 106, No. 5, 2011, pp. 557-561

 en Myxidium volitans check for this species in other resources sp. nov., a parasite of the gallbladder of the fish, Dactylopterus volitans check for this species in other resources (Teleostei: Triglidae) from the Brazilian Atlantic coast - Morphology and pathology
Azevedo, Carlos; Casal, Graça; São Clemente, Sérgio Carmona; Lopes,Leila Maria Silva; Matos, Patrícia; Abdel-Baki, Abdel-Azeem; Oliveira, Elsa & Matos, Edilson

Abstract

Myxidium volitans sp. nov. (Myxozoa: Myxidiidae) parasitizing the hypertrophied green-brownish gallbladder of the teleost Dactylopterus volitans, collected in the Atlantic coast near Niterói, Brazil was described based on ultrastructural studies. The spores were fusiform, sometimes slightly crescent-shaped on average 21.7 ± 0.3 µm (mean ± standard deviation) (n = 50) long and 5.6 ± 0.4 µm (n = 30) wide. The spore wall was thin and smooth, comprising two equally-sized valves joined by a hardly visible sutural ridge. Spores containing two pyriform polar capsules (PC) (5.0 ± 0.4 × 2.3 ± 0.3 µm) (n = 30) are situated in each extremity of the spore. The PC wall was composed of hyaline layer (0.20-0.29 µm thick) and by a thin external granular layer. Each PC contains a polar filament (PF) with irregular arrangements that was projected from its apical region to the bases of PC and coiled laterally from bases to the tip of PC. Some regular striations and S-like structures in the periphery of the PFs with four-five irregular sections were observed. Based on the spore morphology, ultrastructural differences and the specificity of the host we describe this parasite as a new myxosporidian, named M. volitans sp. nov.

Keywords
Myxozoa, Myxidium volitans sp. nov., gallbladder, spore, ultrastructure

 
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