Exoschizonidae
| Exoschizonidae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | |
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| Superphylum: | |
| Phylum: | Levine 1970
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| Class: | Levine 1988
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| Subclass: | Dufour 1828
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| Order: | Grassé & Schrével 1953
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| Family: | Exoschizonidae Levine 1971
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| Genus | |
The Exoschizonidae are a family in the phylum Apicomplexa.
History
This family was created by Levine in 1971.[1]
Taxonomy
There is one genus currently recognised in this family - Exoschizon. This genus has only one species - Exoschizon siphonosomae - which was described by Hukui in 1939.[2]
Description
This species was found in the intestine of a sipunculid worm (Siphonosoma cumanense) in Japan.
The meronts measure 90 µm × 15 µm. There are ~13 longitudinal striations per side.
The meronts and gamonts are similarly shaped.
Transmission is presumably by the orofaecal route.