| tracing the genus sphaerospora: rediscovery, redescription and phylogeny of the sphaerospora ranae (morelle, 1929) n. comb. (myxosporea, sphaerosporidae), with emendation of the genus sphaerospora. | using a combination of morphological, life-history and molecular data, we redescribe sphaerospora ranae (morelle, 1929) n. comb. (previously leptotheca ranae) and emend its taxonomic status. renal infection was recorded in 2 spp. of frogs (out of 5 amphibian spp. examined), rana dalmatina (proposed type host) and rana temporaria, suggesting restricted host specifity of s. ranae. we provide a description of sporogonic stages of s. ranae for the first time and suggest possible modes of its develop ... | 2007 | 17651531 |
| bipteria formosa (kovaleva et gaevskaya, 1979) comb. n. (myxozoa: myxosporea) in whiting merlangius merlangus (teleostei: gadidae) from denmark. | a total of 22 specimens of whiting merlangius merlangus (l.) (teleostei, gadidae) from the northern øresund, denmark were examined for myxosporea. zschokkella hildae auerbach, 1910 (myxidiidae), gadimyxa sp. (parvicapsulidae) and a species of bipteria occurred in the renal tubules of 9%, 18% and 68% whiting, respectively. immature spores of the bipteria species are very similar to spores of myxoproteus formosus kovaleva et gaevskaya, 1979 originally described from the urinary system of whiting f ... | 2009 | 19606784 |