Loma (microsporidian)

Taxobox
name = "Loma"
regnum = Fungi
divisio = Microsporidia
classis = Haplophasea
ordo = Gluegeida
familia = Glugeidae
genus = "Loma"

Loma is a genus of microsporidian parasites, infecting fish. The taxomomic position of "Loma" in the family Glugeidae has been questioned by DNA sequencing results.

Species include

* "Loma acerinae" - formerly placed in "Glugea"
* "Loma branchialis" - the type species
* "Loma camerounensis" - a parasite of the cichlid fish, "Oreochromis niloticus"
* "Loma dimorpha"
* "Loma morhua"
* "Loma myriophis" - parasite of the ophichthid fish, "Myrophis platyrhynchus"
* "Loma salmonae" - a parasite of Pacific salmon, "Oncorhynchus" spp.
* "Loma trichiuri - a parasite of a marine trichiurid fish, "Trichiurus savala"