Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Endocnidozoa

Myxozoa Grassé, 1970

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Class group names

*Myxospora*		synonym

Children

Myxosporea Bütschli, 1881

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: myxozoans

Japanese: ミクソゾア亜門

Literature

basis of record	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.
additional source	Siddall, M.E., Martin, D.S., Bridge, D., Desser, S.S., Cone, D.K. (1995). The demise of a phylum of protists: phylogeny of Myxozoa and other parasitic Cnidaria. Journal of Parasitology. 81 (6): 961-967.
additional source	Smothers, J.F., von Dohlen, C.D., Smith Jr, L.H., Spall, R.D. (1994). Molecular evidence that the myxozoan protists are metazoans. Science. 265: 1719-1721.
additional source	Fiala, I.; Bartošová-Sojková, P.; Whipps, C. M. (2015). Classification and Phylogenetics of Myxozoa. Myxozoan Evolution, Ecology and Development. 85-110.
additional source	Mackenzie, K.; Kalavati, C. (2014). Myxosporean parasites of marine fishes: their distribution in the world's oceans. Parasitology. 141(13): 1709-1717.
additional source	Fomena, A.; Bouix, G. (1997). Myxosporea (Protozoa: Myxozoa) of freshwater fishes in Africa: keys to genera and species. Systematic Parasitology. 37(3): 161-178.
additional source	Collins, A. G. (2009). Recent insights into cnidarian phylogeny. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences. 38: 139-149.
additional source	Chen, C.L, Ma, C.L. (1998). Fauna Sinica. Myxozoa. Myxosporea. Science Press, Beijing. 993 pp.
additional source	Lom, J.; Dykova, I. (2006). Myxozoan genera: definition and notes on taxonomy, life-cycle terminology and pathogenic species. Folia Parasitologica. 53(1): 1-36.
additional source	Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101.
additional source	Miller, T. L. (2024). Myxozoa (Subphylum). In S. L. Gardner and S. A. Gardner, eds. Concepts in Animal Parasitology. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Chapter 13: 208-215.
status source	Zrzavý, J., Hypša, V. (2003). Myxozoa, Polypodium, and the origin of the Bilateria: The phylogenetic position of “Endocnidozoa” in light of the rediscovery of Buddenbrockia. Cladistics. 19(2): 164-169.
taxonomy source	Feng, J.-M.; Xiong, J.; Zhang, J.-Y.; Yang, Y.-L.; Yao, B.; Zhou, Z.-G.; Miao, W. (2014). New phylogenomic and comparative analyses provide corroborating evidence that Myxozoa is Cnidaria. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 81: 10-18.

Genbank

Citation

Whipps, C.W.; Adlard, R.; Atkinson, S.D.; Hoeksema, B.W.(2025). World List of Myxozoa. Myxozoa. 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:146271