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We present histopathological, transmission electron microscopy and molecular phylogenetic data, showing that this disease is defined by colonization of haemolymph, connective tissues and fixed phagocytes by amoeboid cells, leading to tissue destruction and presumably death in severely diseased hosts. The pathology was strongly associated with a novel amoeba with a phylogenetic position on 18S rRNA gene trees robustly sister to <jats:italic>Janickina pigmentifera<\/jats:italic> (which groups within the current circumscription of <jats:italic>Paramoeba\/Neoparamoeba<\/jats:italic>), herein described as <jats:italic>Janickina feisti<\/jats:italic> n. sp. We provide evidence that <jats:italic>J. feisti<\/jats:italic> is associated with ACD in 50% of <jats:italic>C. pagurus<\/jats:italic> sampled from the mortality event. A diversity of other paramoebid sequence types, clustering with known radiations of <jats:italic>N. pemaquidensis<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>N. aestuarina<\/jats:italic> and a novel <jats:italic>N. aestuarina<\/jats:italic> sequence type, was detected by PCR in most of the crabs investigated, but their detection was much less strongly associated with clinical signs of disease. 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