Dermocystidium

The genus Dermocystidium was described in 1907. It was previously thought to be a genus of fungal parasites, related to the Thraustochytrida and Labyrinthulida (both those groups are now considered to be stramenopiles rather than fungi). Other biologists considered it to be a sporozoan protist.

It was subsequently identified as one of a group of fish parasites (the "DRIP clade") of previously uncertain affiliation, which were later identified as nonanimal, nonfungal opisthokonts,{{cite journal |vauthors=Ragan MA, Goggin CL, Cawthorn RJ |title=A novel clade of protistan parasites near the animal-fungal divergence |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |volume=93 |issue=21 |pages=11907–12 |date=October 1996 |pmid=8876236 |pmc=38157 |doi= 10.1073/pnas.93.21.11907|bibcode=1996PNAS...9311907R |display-authors=etal|doi-access=free }} and renamed as Ichthyosporea, and after expansion as Mesomycetozoa. Parasites of crustacea (Dermocystidium daphniae) and molluscs (Dermocystidium marinum) placed in this genus have been found to be likely a bacterium and an alveolate, respectively: Sayre, Gherna and Wergin (1983) concluded that Dermocystidium daphniae was likely identical to Pasteuria ramosa Metchnikoff, 1888,{{cite journal|last1=Sayre|first1=R.M.|last2=Gherna|first2=R.L.|last3=Wergin|first3=W.P.|title=Morphological and Taxonomic Reevaluation of Pasteuria ramosa Metchnikoff 1888 and "Bacillus penetrans" Mankau 1975|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=33|issue=3|doi=10.1099/00207713-33-3-636|year=1983|pages=636–649|doi-access=free}} while D. marinum has been reclassified as Perkinsus marinus.{{cite journal|last=Levine|first=Norman D.|journal=The Journal of Parasitology|volume=64|issue=3|doi=10.2307/3279807|jstor=3279807|page=549|year=1978|title=Perkinsus gen. n. and Other New Taxa in the Protozoan Phylum Apicomplexa}}

The frog parasite Dermocystidium ranae has been segregated as Amphibiocystidium ranae.{{cite journal |author=R. Pascolini |author2=P. Daszak |author3=A. A. Cunningham |title=Parasitism by Dermocystidium ranae in a population of Rana esculenta complex in Central Italy and description of Amphibiocystidium n. gen |journal=Diseases of Aquatic Organisms |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=65–74|date=August 2003 |doi=10.3354/dao056065|pmid=14524503 |display-authors=etal|doi-access=free }}

• Dermocystidium aegyptiacus El-Mansy 2008
• Dermocystidium anguillae Spangenberg 1975— a gill parasite of eels
• Dermocystidium branchialis Léger 1914[http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/Names.asp Index Fungorum] — a gill parasite of salmonids
• Dermocystidium cochliopodii Valkanov 1967
• Dermocystidium cyprini Červinka & Lom 1974 — a gill parasite of carp{{cite journal |author=S. Červinka |author2=J. Vítovec |author3=J. Lom|author4=J. Hoška |author5=F. Kubů |title=Dermocystidiosis–a gill disease of the carp due to Dermocystidium cyprini n.sp. |journal=J. Fish Biol. |volume=6 |issue=6 |pages=689–699|date=November 1974 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8649.1974.tb05112.x|bibcode=1974JFBio...6..689C }}
• Dermocystidium erschowii Garkavi, Denisov & Afanas'ev 1980— a skin parasite of carp
• Dermocystidium fennicum Pekkarinen et al. 2003— a skin parasite of perch {{cite journal |author=Marketta Pekkarinen |author2=Jiří Lom |author3=Colleen A. Murphy |author4=Mark A. Ragan |author5=Iva Dyková |name-list-style=amp |title=Phylogenetic Position and Ultrastructure of Two Dermocystidium Species (Ichthyosporea) from the Common Perch (Perca fluviatilis) |journal=Acta Protozool. |volume=42 |pages=287–307 |year=2003 |url=http://www1.nencki.gov.pl/pdf/ap/ap718.pdf |access-date=2011-05-16 |archive-date=2014-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518135432/http://www1.nencki.gov.pl/pdf/ap/ap718.pdf |url-status=dead }}
• Dermocystidium gasterostei Elkan 1962 — a parasite of sticklebacks{{cite journal |author=E. Elkan |title=Dermocystidium Gasterostei n. sp., A Parasite of Gasterosteus Aculeatus L. and Gasterosteus Pungitius L. |journal=Nature |volume=196 |pages=958–960| year=1962 |doi=10.1038/196958a0 |issue=4858|bibcode=1962Natur.196..958E |s2cid=4217342 }}
• Dermocystidium granulosum Sterba & Naumann 1970
• Dermocystidium guyenotii Thélin 1955
• Dermocystidium koi Hoshina & Sahara 1950 — a skin parasite of carp
• Dermocystidium kwangtungensis {{cite journal |author=Qizhong Zhang |author2=Zhijian Wang |title=Dermocystidium sp. infection in cultured juvenile southern catfish Silurus meridionalis in China |journal=Diseases of Aquatic Organisms |volume=65 |pages=245–250| year=2005 |issue=3 |url=https://www.int-res.com/articles/dao2005/65/d065p245.pdf |doi=10.3354/dao065245|pmid=16119893 |doi-access=free}}
• Dermocystidium macrophagi van de Moer, Manier & Bouix 1988
• Dermocystidium nemachili
• Dermocystidium penneri (Jay & Pohley 1981) Borteiro et al. 2018
• Dermocystidium percae Reichenbach-Klinke 1950 — a skin parasite of perch
• Dermocystidium pusulum (Pérez 1907) Pérez 1908
• Dermocystidium salmonis — a gill parasite of salmon
• Dermocystidium sinensis
• Dermocystidium sinipercae{{Cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Bo |last2=Gu |first2=Zemao |date=2022-05-31 |title=Isolation and identification of Dermocystidium sinipercae sp. n. |url=https://www.china-fishery.com/scxuebao/article/abstract/20210312707 |journal=Journal of Fisheries of China |language=zh |volume=46 |issue=5 |pages=741–749 |doi=10.11964/jfc.20210312707 |issn=1000-0615}} — a parasite of Chinese perch
• Dermocystidium vejdovskyi Jírovec 1939 — a parasite of pike

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• {{cite web |title=Dermocystidium |work=NCBI Taxonomy Browser |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=39436 |id=39436}}

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