Ichthyophonus

Ichthyophonus
Hyphae (or germ tubes) and schizonts of Ichthyophonus hoferi
Hyphae (or germ tubes) and schizonts of Ichthyophonus hoferi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Holozoa
Class: Ichthyosporea
Order: Ichthyophonida
Family: Ichthyophonidae
Genus: Ichthyophonus
Plehn & Mulsow 1911
Type species
Ichthyophonus hoferi
Plehn & Mulsow 1911
Species[1]
  • I. gasterophilus
  • I. hoferi
  • I. intestinalis
  • I. irregularis
  • I. lotae

Ichthyophonus is a genus of unicellular eukaryotic parasites of fish. They were once considered to be fungi, but phylogenetic evidence suggests they are protists related to both fungi and animals.[2][3]

Species

  • I. gasterophilus (Caullery & Mesnil 1905) Sprague 1965
  • I. hoferi Plehn & Mulsow 1911
  • I. intestinalis Léger & Hesse 1923
  • I. irregularis Rand et al. 2000
  • I. lotae Leger 1925

References

  1. ^ "Ichthyophonus". www.mycobank.org. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  2. ^ Ragan MA, Goggin CL, Cawthorn RJ, et al. (October 1996). "A novel clade of protistan parasites near the animal-fungal divergence". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 (21): 11907–12. Bibcode:1996PNAS...9311907R. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.21.11907. PMC 38157. PMID 8876236.
  3. ^ Hershberger PK, Pacheco CA, Gregg JL, Purcell MK, LaPatra SE (October 2008). "Differential survival of Ichthyophonus isolates indicates parasite adaptation to its host environment". J. Parasitol. (Submitted manuscript). 94 (5): 1055–9. doi:10.1645/GE-1553.1. PMID 18576846. S2CID 32045435.
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