Waminoa

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]

Waminoa
Waminoa sp. (orange structure) on the Plerogyra sinuosa coral (whitish bubbles).
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Xenacoelomorpha
Order: Acoela
Family: Convolutidae
Genus: Waminoa
Winsor, 1990
Species
Waminoa brickneri
Waminoa litus

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]

References
  1. Naumann, Malik S.; Mayr, Christoph; Struck, Ulrich; Wild, Christian (2010-11-01). "Coral mucus stable isotope composition and labeling: experimental evidence for mucus uptake by epizoic acoelomorph worms". Marine Biology. 157 (11): 2521–2531. doi:10.1007/s00227-010-1516-3. ISSN 1432-1793.
  2. Winsor, Leigh (1990). "Marine Turbellaria (Acoela) from North Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 28: 785–800.
  3. Tyler, Seth; Barneah, Orit; Benayahu, Yehuda; Tekle, Yonas I.; Hooge, Matthew D.; Ogunlana, Maxina V. (2005-06-14). "Waminoa brickneri n. sp. (Acoela: Acoelomorpha) associated with corals in the Red Sea". Zootaxa. 1008 (1): 1–11. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1008.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  4. Koike, Kazuhiko; Hikosaka, Akira; Yamashita, Hiroshi; Koike, Kanae; Hikosaka-Katayama, Tomoe (2012). "Mechanisms of Maternal Inheritance of Dinoflagellate Symbionts in the Acoelomorph Worm Waminoa litus". Zoological Science. 29 (9): 559–567. doi:10.2108/zsj.29.559. ISSN 0289-0003.
  5. Barneah, O.; Brickner, I.; Hooge, M.; Weis, V. M.; LaJeunesse, T. C.; Benayahu, Y. (2007-05-01). "Three party symbiosis: acoelomorph worms, corals and unicellular algal symbionts in Eilat (Red Sea)". Marine Biology. 151 (4): 1215–1223. doi:10.1007/s00227-006-0563-2. ISSN 1432-1793.
  6. Haapkylä, Jessica; Seymour, Adrian S.; Barneah, Orit; Brickner, Itzchak; Hennige, Sebastian; Suggett, David; Smith, David (2009-04-01). "Association of Waminoa sp. (Acoela) with corals in the Wakatobi Marine Park, South-East Sulawesi, Indonesia". Marine Biology. 156 (5): 1021–1027. doi:10.1007/s00227-009-1145-x. ISSN 1432-1793.


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