Definition of Myxosporidia
1. Noun. An order in the subclass Cnidosporidia.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Cnidosporidia, Subclass Cnidosporidia
Member holonyms: Myxosporidian
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Myxosporidia
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 ..."