Cryptobia is a genus of kinetoplastids. Several species are known for being fishpathogens. They can be found in other animals, as well. The name Trypanoplasma is occasionally used for some of these.[1]
There are 52 species of Cryptobia known from fish. 40 of these live in the blood, 7 in the gut, and 5 on the body surface.[1]
Examples include:
Cryptobia branchialis, an ectoparasite that lives on the skin or gills. It can deform the skin and cause anorexia and death.
Cryptobia iubilans, an endoparasite that lives in the intestines and causes granulomatous inflammation of the abdominal organs, resulting in weight loss and death.
Cryptobia salmositica, C. borreli, and C. bullocki, blood parasites that lead to anaemia and lesions in the haematopoietic tissues.
Some Cryptobia parasitize other animal taxa. Examples include:
^ abWoo, P. T. K. (2003). Cryptobia (Trypanoplasma) salmositica and salmonid cryptobiosis. Journal of Fish Diseases 26(11-12) 627–46.
^Kozloff, E. N. (2004). Redescription of Cryptobia helicis Leidy, 1846 (Kinetoplasta: Bodonea: Cryptobiidae), disposition of flagellates mistakenly assigned to this species, and description of a new species from a North American pulmonate snail. Acta Protozoologica 43 123-32.
^Guiry, M. D. & G. M. Guiry. 2013. Cryptobia. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. 11 June 2013.
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