| Loma morhua | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Rozellomycota |
| Class: | Microsporidea |
| Order: | Glugeida |
| Family: | Glugeidae |
| Genus: | Loma |
| Species: | L. morhua |
| Binomial name | |
| Loma morhua Morrison & Sprague, 1981 | |
Loma morhua, also known as Loma branchialis, is a species of microsporidian parasite, infecting fish. [1] It forms xenoparasitic complexes of the cell-hypertrophy tumour type, and is found in the gills of the Atlantic cod Gadus morhua . It is apansporoblastic, unikaryotic, disporoblastic and undergoes partial development in parasitophorous vacuoles, while lacking plasmodial stages. It produces one or two spores in a vacuole, having tubules in the parasitophorous vacuoles.
