Heydornia

Heydornia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Sar
(unranked):	Alveolata
Phylum:	Apicomplexa
Class:	Conoidasida
Subclass:	Coccidiasina
Order:	Eucoccidiorida
Suborder:	Eimeriorina
Family:	Sarcocystidae
Subfamily:	Toxoplasmatinae
Genus:	Heydornia
Species
	Heydornia heydorni; Heydornia triffittae

Heydornia is a genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa.

History

This genus was created in 2016 by splitting canid-infecting species from Hammondia based on the molecular phylogenetic analysis.^[1]

Life cycle

The species in this genus have two vertebrate hosts in their life cycle: a canid (the definitive host) and prey species (the intermediate host). They are strictly heteroxenous.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Ogedengbe; et al. (2016). "Molecular phylogenetic analyses of tissue coccidia (sarcocystidae; apicomplexa) based on nuclear 18s RDNA and mitochondrial COI sequences confirms the paraphyly of the genus Hammondia". Parasitology Open. 2: e2. doi:10.1017/pao.2015.7.

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[Ogedengbe-1] Ogedengbe; et al. (2016). "Molecular phylogenetic analyses of tissue coccidia (sarcocystidae; apicomplexa) based on nuclear 18s RDNA and mitochondrial COI sequences confirms the paraphyly of the genus Hammondia". Parasitology Open. 2: e2. doi:10.1017/pao.2015.7.

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