FIGURE 1 in Myxosporea (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) infecting the saddled seabream Oblada melanura (L. 1758) (Teleostei: Sparidae) and the painted comber Serranus scriba (L. 1758) (Teleostei: Serranidae) in Tunisia

FIGURE 1. Photomicrographs of Ceratomyxa sp. 1 from the gall bladder of Oblada melanura. (A–E) Disporic sub-spherical to spherical plasmodia (p) containing each one two identical spores surrounded with vary refractive granules (g), Notice the presence of two capsulogenic nuclei (cn) and numerous sporoplasmosomes (spp). (F) Fresh smear contains disporic plasmodia (p) and Mature spores (s). (G) mature spore in sutural view showing the spherical polar capsules (pc), the straight suture line (sl), the sporoplasmic nuclei (sn), the capsulogenic nuclei (cn) and the unequal shell valves. (H) mature spore in lateral view. Scale bar = 20 µm in F; 10 µm in A–E, G–H.