Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Endocnidozoa > Class Myxozoa > Subclass Myxosporea > Order Bivalvulida > Suborder Sphaeromyxina > Family Sphaeromyxidae > Genus Sphaeromyxa

Sphaeromyxa minuta Polyanskii, 1955

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sphaeromyxa*	Thélohan, 1892	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Polyanskii, Y. I. (1955). The parasitology of fish of Northern marine waters of the USSR: Parasites of the fish of the Barents Sea. Materialy po parazitologii ryb severnykh morei SSSR. Parazity ryb Barentsova Morya. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk USSR (Transactions of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR). 19: 5–170. [In Russian, English Translation published in 1966 by Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 158 pp.].
basis of record	Karlsbakk, E. (2001). Myxozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 80-84
taxonomy source	Whipps, C. M.; Zhao, Y. (2015). Synopsis of the species of the genus Sphaeromyxa Thélohan, 1892 (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida: Variisporina: Sphaeromyxidae). Systematic Parasitology. 92(2): 81-99.

Genbank

Citation

Whipps, C.W.; Adlard, R.; Atkinson, S.D.; Hoeksema, B.W.(2025). World List of Myxozoa. Sphaeromyxa minuta Polyanskii, 1955. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:120300