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The taxonomic position of the coccidian genus Crystallospora (Protozoa, Apicomplexa)
Author(s) -
LEVINE N. D.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of fish diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-2761
pISSN - 0140-7775
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2761.1984.tb00937.x
Subject(s) - eimeriidae , biology , apicomplexa , protozoa , genus , zoology , taxon , eimeria , ecology , protozoal disease , genetics , malaria , microbiology and biotechnology , immunology
The genus Crystallospora was established by Labbé (1896) for a coccidium that Thélohan (1893) had found in the Atlantic Ocean off France. Dogel’ (1948) later found it in Peter the Great Gulf (Pacific Ocean) off Japan. It was transferred to Eimeria by Doflein (1909) and remained there until Dyková & Lom (1981) revived it because of its unique sporocyst structure. Actually, its structure necessitates its removal from the family Eimeriidae and placement in the family Barrouxiidae (see Levine [1983] for a review of this family). The pertinent taxa and their diagnoses therefore become: