Waminoa | |
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Waminoa sp. (orange structure) on the Plerogyra sinuosa coral (whitish bubbles). | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Xenacoelomorpha |
Order: | Acoela |
Family: | Convolutidae |
Genus: |
Waminoa Winsor, 1990 |
Species | |
Waminoa is a genus of acoels which are epizoic on living corals, using the coral's mucus as a source of food. [1] Unusually, these acoels harbor two genera of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates: Symbiodinium and Amphidinium; [2] [3] it is not typical for two different genera of dinoflagellates to coexist in a single host. Waminoa's host coral may also contain dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium but not Amphidinium. [4]
Only two species belonging to this genus have been discovered ( W. litus and W. brickneri) and they inhabit coral reefs in the Red Sea, [5] Australia, [2] and Indonesia. [6]
Waminoa | |
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Waminoa sp. (orange structure) on the Plerogyra sinuosa coral (whitish bubbles). | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Xenacoelomorpha |
Order: | Acoela |
Family: | Convolutidae |
Genus: |
Waminoa Winsor, 1990 |
Species | |
Waminoa is a genus of acoels which are epizoic on living corals, using the coral's mucus as a source of food. [1] Unusually, these acoels harbor two genera of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates: Symbiodinium and Amphidinium; [2] [3] it is not typical for two different genera of dinoflagellates to coexist in a single host. Waminoa's host coral may also contain dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium but not Amphidinium. [4]
Only two species belonging to this genus have been discovered ( W. litus and W. brickneri) and they inhabit coral reefs in the Red Sea, [5] Australia, [2] and Indonesia. [6]