Waminoa
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| Waminoa | |
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| File:Acoel Flatworms (Waminoa sp.) on Bubble Coral (Plerogyra sinuosa) - Panglima, Pulau Mabul, Sabah, Malaysia.jpg | |
| Waminoa sp. (orange structure) on the Plerogyra sinuosa coral (whitish bubbles). | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Xenacoelomorpha |
| Order: | Acoela |
| Family: | Convolutidae |
| Genus: | Waminoa Winsor, 1990 |
| Species | |
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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]
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