Definition of Myxosporidia

1. Noun. An order in the subclass Cnidosporidia.

Exact synonyms: Order Myxosporidia
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Cnidosporidia, Subclass Cnidosporidia
Member holonyms: Myxosporidian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myxosporidia

Myxine glutinosa
Myxinidae
Myxiniformes
Myxinikela
Myxinikela siroka
Myxinoidea
Myxinoidei
Myxobacterales
Myxobacteriaceae
Myxobacteriales
Myxocephalus
Myxocephalus aenaeus
Myxomycetes
Myxomycota
Myxophyceae
Myxosporidia
Mœræ
Mœsia
Médoc
Médocs
Ménière's disease
Mérida
Mórrígan
Möbius group
Möbius groups
Möller-Barlow disease
Mössbauer effect
Müller-Lyer illusion
Mülleran mimicry
Münchausen syndrome

Literary usage of Myxosporidia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of meat inspection by Robert Ostertag, Earley Vernon Wilcox (1907)
"(b) myxosporidia. myxosporidia are parasitic chiefly iu fish. A large number of species are known. myxosporidia are usually surrounded with a tough cuticula ..."

2. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"... of myxosporidia from a pike, Esox sporozoite. ... (1854) studied the myxosporidia in the bladder of the pike (fig. 93, a, 6, if), and observed their ..."

3. Protozoölogy by Gary Nathan Calkins (1909)
"(e) Sporulation in myxosporidia.—Little more need be added to what has already been given in connection with spore ..."

4. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"... vesicles,' or ' Rainey's corpuscles,' the names of their first discoverers in Germany and England respectively. (iv) myxosporidia. ..."

5. Protozoa and Disease by James Jackson Clarke (1903)
"The manner in which some myxosporidia live amongst the tissues of their host in shown in Fig. 64. The young parasites in the muscles doubtless develop from ..."

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