| morphological and genetical description of loma psittaca sp. n. isolated from the amazonian fish species colomesus psittacus. | a previously unrecognised fish-infecting microsporidia (loma psittaca n. sp.), found adherent to the intestinal mucosa of the freshwater puffer fish colomesus psittacus (teleostei, tetraodontidae) from lower amazon river, was described based on light and transmission electron microscope and phylogenetic analysis. the whitish xenoma was completely filled by numerous spores, including several developmental stages of the parasite. in all of these stages, the nuclei were monokaryotic. the merogonial ... | 2009 | 19593585 |