A summary of the type host, additional hosts

Species	Type host	Additional hosts	Type locality	Location in host	Type material	Reference culture	Reference sequence (GenBank Acc.)
S. barkhanus [43]	Thymallus thymallus	Salvelinus alpinus Salmo trutta	River Glomma, Norway	Lumen of gut and gall bladder	B	ATCC 50467	DQ186581
S. elegans [59]	Triturus alpestris Rana rana	Pterophyllum scalare	NA	Intestine	NA	NA	NA
S. salmonicida [27]	Salvelinus alpines	Oncorhychus namaykush Salmo salar	Fiskfjorden, Norway (68°N, 15°E)	Systemic infection	C	ATCC 50377	DQ181595
S. salmonis [47]	Salvelinus fontinalis	Oncorhynchus mykiss	Bath, New York State, USA	Digestive tract, upper intestinal region	NA	NA	DQ394703
S. torosus [28]	Gadus morhua	Melanogrammus aeglefinus Lota lota	Chebucto Head approach to Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada	Digestive tract, rectum in cod	D	NA	EF050055
S. vortens [5]	Pterophyllum scalare	Leuciscus idus Symphysodon discus	Archer, Florida, USA (29° 32'N, 82° 31W)	Lumen of intestine	A	ATCC 50386	U93085

A Holotype slide of protargol-impregnated specimens and TEM block in the International Protozoan Slide collection at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Accession number USNM #47820.
B TEM blocks and SEM stubs kept at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Oslo, Norway,
C SEM stub: 180-1 (hapantotype) deposited in the International Protozoan Slide collection at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
D.C. Accession number USNM 1093603. TEM blocks: 2718-3, 2718-5, 2618-25 and 2618-30 representing paratypes are deposited at Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Oslo.
D Holotype and numerous paratypes deposited in the Invertebrate Collection (Parasites), National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Canada. Accession number NMCP 1988-0899.

Table 1: A summary of the type host, additional hosts, type locality, location in the host and type material, as well as reference culture and reference sequence acquisition numbers of the best described Spironucleus spp. from fish.

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