Saprolegnia parasitica
Saprolegnia parasitica is a species of freshwater and estuarine oomycete in the genus Saprolegnia. The species is an important pathogen of fish and fish eggs and is one of the principal causative agents of saprolegniasis (or cotton wool disease) in aquaculture. Although historically grouped with fungi, S. parasitica is classified as a water mold, and is more closely related to brown algae and diatoms than to true fungi.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 856404.