| description of five new loma (microsporidia) species in pacific fishes with redesignation of the type species loma morhua morrison & sprague, 1981, based on morphological and molecular species-boundaries tests. | five new species of loma were described from five pacific fishes using light-microscopic and ultrastructural features along with phylogenetic analysis of the gene sequences of ribosomal rna (rrna) and elongation factor 1-alpha. morphological data revealed both qualitative and quantitative differences in developmental stages and timing, vesicles, xenoma features, and spore sizes with statistical support that differentiated loma pacificodae n. sp. in pacific cod, loma wallae n. sp. in walleye poll ... | 2010 | 21040100 |