Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Endocnidozoa > Class Myxozoa > Subclass Myxosporea > Order Bivalvulida > Suborder Variisporina > Family Ceratomyxidae > Genus Ceratomyxa

Ceratomyxa lubati Gunter & Adlard, 2010

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ceratomyxa*	Thélohan, 1892	accepted genus name
*Leptotheca*	Thélohan, 1895	synonym

Species group names

*Leptotheca chromis*	Lubat, Radujkovic, Marques & Bouix, 1989	junior homonym

Literature

original description	Gunter, N.; Adlard, R. (2010). The demise of Leptotheca Thélohan, 1895 (Myxozoa: Myxosporea: Ceratomyxidae) and assignment of its species to Ceratomyxa Thélohan, 1892 (Myxosporea: Ceratomyxidae), Ellipsomyxa Køie, 2003 (Myxosporea: Ceratomyxidae), Myxobolus Bütschli, 1882 and Sphaerospora Thélohan, 1892 (Myxosporea: Sphaerosporidae). Systematic Parasitology. 75(2): 81-104.
additional source	Vidal, L.P., Iannacone, J., Whipps, C.M., Luque, J.L. (2017). Synopsis of the species of Myxozoa Grassé, 1970 (Cnidaria: Myxosporea) in the Americas. Neotropical Helminthology. 11(2): 413-511.

Genbank

Citation

Whipps, C.W.; Adlard, R.; Atkinson, S.D.; Hoeksema, B.W.(2025). World List of Myxozoa. Ceratomyxa lubati Gunter & Adlard, 2010. 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:465103