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Trichodina

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Trichodina
a genus of protozoa in the subclass Peritricha which parasitizes the skin and gills of fish and causes local irritation. They have a characteristic disk-like appearance and are in constant revolving motion. Only pathogenic when in large numbers and/or in stressed fish.


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for his depiction of a snail radula; Neal Melvin of the University of Texas in Dallas for his image of an adult mouse hippocampus; Gerd Guenther of Duesseldorf, Germany, for his Trichodina pediculus; Charles Krebs of Issaquah, Washington, for his image of a jewel beetle, and Petr Znachor of the Institute of Hydrobiology in the Czech Republic, for his depiction of a colonial diatom.
2 This ciliate, which is similar to a Trichodina species, was also found in clams examined both alive and from histological sections parasitizing the gills in low intensities (Table 1).
 
 
 
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