| Glugea | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Rozellomycota |
| Class: | Microsporidia |
| Order: | Glugeida |
| Family: | Glugeidae |
| Genus: | Glugea Thélohan, 1891 |
Glugea is a genus of microsporidian parasites, predominantly infecting fish. [1] [2] Infections of Glugea cause xenoma formation. [1]
Currently, Phylogenetic tree of this genus seem unreliable, as not enough evidence is present, [1] therefore species with their common hosts are given in a list:
- G. anomala (syn. G. weissenbergi) – a parasite of the three-spined stickleback and the ninespine stickleback [1]
- G. atherinae – a parasite of the big-scale sand smelt [1]
- G. berglax – a parasite of the roughhead grenadier [1]
- G. bychowski – a parasite of the Caspian anadromous shad [1]
- G. capverdensis – a parasite of the spotted lanternfish [1]
- G. heraldi – a parasite of the seahorse Hippocampus erectus [1]
- G. hertwigi – a parasite of the European smelt and the Rainbow smelt [1] [3]
- G. nagelia – a parasite of the yellowfin hind [4]
- G. plecoglossi – a parasite of the ayu sweetfish [1]
- G. sardinellensis – a parasite of fish of the genus Sardinella [5]
- G. shiplei – a parasite of fish of the pouting [1]
- G. stephani – a parasite of Pleuronectes flesus , the winter flounder, the English sole, and the Common dab [1]
- G. vincentiae – a parasite of the Australian marine teleost fish, Vincentia conspersa [6]
- G. truttae – a parasite of the brown trout [1]
Spraguea lophii has formerly been described as G. americanus. [1]
Microgemma caulleryi that infects the greater sand eel was previously classified as G. caulleryi. [7]
