Garnia is a genus of parasitic alveolates belonging to the phylum Apicomplexia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
| Class: | Aconoidasida |
| Order: | Haemospororida |
| Family: | Garniidae |
| Genus: | Garnia Lainson et al, 1971 |
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Garnia gonatodi | |
History
editThe genus was created in 1971 by Lainson et al.[1]
Description
editUlike members of the Plasmodiidae and Haemoproteidae, species in this genus do not produce pigment when developing in the erythrocytes.
Species in this genus are distinguished from members of the Leucocytozoidae by their schizogony in the red and white cells of the peripheral blood.
The vectors of this genus are not known but it is suspected that phlebotomine sandflies may act in this regard.[2]
The type species is Garnia gonatodi.
Hosts
editSpecies in this genus infect lizards.
Geographic distribution
editThis genus has been described in South America.
References
edit- ^ Lainson R, Landau I and Shaw J.J. (1971) On a new family of non-pigmented parasites in the blood of reptiles: Garniidae fam. nov., (Coccidiida: Haemosporidiidea). Some species of the new genus Garnia. Int. J. Parasitol. 1, (3-4) 241-244
- ^ Lainson, R.; Naiff, R.D. (1999). "Garnia karyolytica n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Haemosporina: Garniidae), a blood parasite of the Brazilian lizard Thecodactylus rapicaudus (Squamata: Gekkonidae)". Parasite. 6 (3): 209–215. doi:10.1051/parasite/1999063209. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 10511968.
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