The description of two new species of Chloromyxum from skates in the Argentine Sea reveals that a limited geographic host distribution causes phylogenetic lineage separation of myxozoans in Chondrichthyes

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Table 1.

Uncorrected-p distance with percentages of sequence similarities (above diagonal) and the number of nucleotide substitutions (below diagonal) among the 14 sequences of Chloromyxum spp. included in this study, based on a 1650 bp alignment of the SSU DNA.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1 Chloromyxum zearaji n. sp. MG652632		99.25	96.02	93.31	93.75	93.79	95.03	94.78	96.22	94.53	94.63	93.50	93.91	90.58
2 C. atlantoraji n. sp. MG652633	12		96.03	93.55	93.45	93.55	94.60	94.42	95.87	94.40	94.42	93.06	93.54	90.52
3 C. riorajum FJ624481	64	64		99.88	93.13	92.80	94.52	94.20	95.42	93.95	94.19	92.90	93.10	89.93
4 C. riorajum MG652631 ^*	55	53	1		88.73	88.44	90.00	89.35	92.02	89.55	89.81	87.87	88.92	82.40
5 C. leydigi AY604199	101	106	111	93		96.18	97.11	97.17	98.80	96.68	96.99	95.97	97.20	90.91
6 C. clavatum JQ793641	100	104	116	95	62		96.71	96.40	97.24	96.29	95.65	94.90	95.83	90.80
7 C. squali JN130381	68	74	75	58	40	45		96.63	97.22	95.91	95.76	94.83	97.00	90.75
8 C. mingazzinii JN130379	71	76	79	61	39	49	46		97.72	97.86	96.33	95.26	97.06	90.42
9 Chloromyxum sp. ex S. acanthias JN130384	52	57	63	47	17	38	38	31		97.08	96.88	96.01	98.55	91.23
10 C. lesteri JN130377	75	77	83	61	46	51	56	29	40		96.28	94.90	96.72	90.86
11 C. kuhlii JN130375	74	77	80	60	42	60	58	50	43	51		94.01	96.51	90.80
12 C. hemiscyllii JN130374	88	94	96	70	55	69	70	64	54	69	81		95.64	90.15
13 C. leydigi DQ377710	98	104	111	91	45	67	41	40	20	45	48	59		90.51
14 C. myliobati JN130380	130	131	139	104	126	127	127	131	121	126	127	134	131

Partial sequence (821 nt from 5′ end).

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