Porosporidae
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| Superfamily: | Porosporicae Chakravarty 1960
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| Family: | Porosporidae Labbé 1899
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Porosporidae is a family of parasitic alveolates of the phylum Apicomplexia
Taxonomy
[edit]This family has 3 genera - Pachyporospora, Porospora and Nematopsis - and 37 species.
The members of this family are distinguished from the other septate gregarines by having a digenic (two host) life cycle.
History
[edit]This taxon was created in 1899 by Labbé.[1]
Description
[edit]The species in this family are heteroxenous, meaning they live in two separate hosts during their life cycle. The two host species involved in their life cycle are a crustacean and a mollusc. The life cycle involves vegetative development in digestive tract of a decapod crustacean and sporogony in the connective tissue of a lamellibranch mollusc.
References
[edit]- ^ Labbé A (1899) Sporozoa. In Das Tierreich: Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen, Schulze, F. E. & Bütschli, O. (eds.). R. Friedländer und Sohn, Berlin: Germany
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