:Ceratomyxa yokoyamai

{{Short description|Species of marine parasite}}

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| taxon = Ceratomyxa yokoyamai

| authority = Gunter & Adlard, 2009

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Ceratomyxa yokoyamai is a myxosporean parasite that infects gall-bladders of serranid fishes from the Great Barrier Reef. It was first found on Epinephelus maculatus.{{cite journal|last1=Gunter|first1=Nicole L.|last2=Adlard|first2=Robert D.|title=Seven new species of Ceratomyxa Thélohan, 1892 (Myxozoa) from the gall-bladders of serranid fishes from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia|journal=Systematic Parasitology|volume=73|issue=1|year=2009|pages=1–11|issn=0165-5752|doi=10.1007/s11230-008-9162-6|pmid=19337855|s2cid=21039994|doi-access=free}}

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Further reading

  • Kalatzis, Panos G., Constantina Kokkari, and Pantelis Katharios. "Description and relationships of two novel species of Ceratomyxa Thelohan, 1892 infecting the gallbladders of Aulopiformes: Atlantic lizardfish Synodus saurus Linnaeus, 1758 and royal flagfin Aulopus filamentosus Bloch, 1792 from Cretan Sea, Greece." Parasitology research 112.5 (2013): 2055–2061.