Babesiosoma
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Babesiosoma is a genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexia.
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Babesiosoma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Alveolata |
Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
Class: | Conoidasida |
Order: | Eucoccidiorida |
Family: | Dactylosomatidae |
Genus: | Babesiosoma Jakowski and Nigrelli, 1956 |
Species | |
Babesiosoma bettencourti |
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They have two hosts in their life cycle: the vertebrate hosts are fish and the invertebrate vectors are leeches.
This genus has been poorly studied and little is known about it.
The genus was created in 1956 by Jakowski and Nigrelli.[1]
- Jakowska S, Nigrelli RF (1956)Some protozoan diseases of man and animals: Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, and Toxoplasmosis. Annal NY Acad Sci 64, 112–127
- Misra KK, Haldar DP, Chakravarty MM (1969) Babesiosoma ophicephali n. sp. from the freshwater teleost Ophicephalus punctatus Bloch. J Protozool 16(3):446-449
- Negm-Eldin MM (1998) Life cycle, host restriction and longevity of Babesiosoma mariae HOARE, 1930 (Apicomplexa: Dactylosomatidae). Dtsch Tierarztl Wochenschr 105(10):367-374
- Smit NJ, Van As JG, Davies AJ (2003) Observations on Babesiosoma mariae (Apicomplexa: Dactylosomatidae) from the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Folia Parasitol (Praha) 50(1):85-86
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