Porosporidae

Porosporidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	SAR
(unranked):	Alveolata
Phylum:	Apicomplexa
Class:	Conoidasida
Subclass:	Gregarinasina
Order:	Eugregarinorida
Suborder:	Septatorina
Superfamily:	Porosporicae; Chakravarty 1960
Family:	Porosporidae; Labbé 1899
Genera
	Pachyporospora; Porospora; Nematopsis

Porosporidae is a family of parasitic alveolates of the phylum Apicomplexia

Taxonomy

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

This taxon was created in 1899 by Labbé.^[1]

Description

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

^ 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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[Labbé1899-1] 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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