Ichthyophonus

Ichthyophonus is a genus of unicellular eukaryotic parasites of fish. They were once considered to be fungi, but phylogenetic evidence suggests they are protists related to both fungi and animals.^[2][3]

Ichthyophonus
Hyphae (or germ tubes) and schizonts of Ichthyophonus hoferi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Holozoa
Class:	Ichthyosporea
Order:	Ichthyophonida
Family:	Ichthyophonidae
Genus:	Ichthyophonus Plehn & Mulsow 1911
Type species
Ichthyophonus hoferi Plehn & Mulsow 1911
Species[1]
I. gasterophilus I. hoferi I. intestinalis I. irregularis I. lotae

Species

• I. gasterophilus (Caullery & Mesnil 1905) Sprague 1965
• I. hoferi Plehn & Mulsow 1911
• I. intestinalis Léger & Hesse 1923
• I. irregularis Rand et al. 2000
• I. lotae Leger 1925

References

1. "Ichthyophonus". www.mycobank.org. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
2. Ragan MA, Goggin CL, Cawthorn RJ, et al. (October 1996). "A novel clade of protistan parasites near the animal-fungal divergence". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 (21): 11907–12. Bibcode:1996PNAS...9311907R. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.21.11907. PMC 38157. PMID 8876236.
3. Hershberger PK, Pacheco CA, Gregg JL, Purcell MK, LaPatra SE (October 2008). "Differential survival of Ichthyophonus isolates indicates parasite adaptation to its host environment". J. Parasitol. (Submitted manuscript). 94 (5): 1055–9. doi:10.1645/GE-1553.1. PMID 18576846. S2CID 32045435.