Haemosporidiasina

Haemosporidiasina (Haemosporidia) is a subclass of apicomplexans described by Jacques Euzéby in 1988^[1] that is not widely used by biologists. The taxon is very similar to the taxon of Aconoidasida.

Taxonomy

Haemosporidiasina is divided into 2 orders:

Order Chromatorida (with pigmented intraerythrocytic parasites)
- Suborder Laveraniina
  - Family Plasmodiidae
  - Family Haemoproteidae

Order Achromatorida (with non-pigmented intraerythrocytic parasites)
- Suborder Babesiina includes agents of piroplasmosis sensu stricto
  - Family Babesiidae This family excludes species that undergo schizogony in lymphocytes before parasitizing erythrocytes: such species belong to the genus Theileria
    - Genus Babesia Starcovici 1893
    - Genus Entopolypoides Mayer 1933
    - Genus Echinozoon Garnham 1951
    - Genus Microbabesia Sohns 1918
  - Family Haemohormidiidae has several genera, including:
    - Genus Cristalloidophora Porchet 1978
    - Genus Dobellia Brumpt 1913
    - Genus Echinococcidium Brasil 1902
    - Genus Globidiellum Eisen 1895
    - Genus Haemohormidium Léger & Duboscq 1910
    - Genus Joyeuxella Brasil 1902
    - Genus Rhabdospora Landau, Boulard & Houin 1969
    - Genus Sauroplasma Starcovici 1893
    - Genus Spermatobium Garnham 1951
    - Genus Toxocystis Henry 1910
    - Genus Trophosphaera du Toit 1938
- Suborder Theileriina includes parasites of erythrocytes and diverse white blood cells with sexual reproduction by exoerythrocytic or by exo- and endoerythrocytic schizogony.
  - Family Theileriidae du Toit 1918
    - Genus Theileria Bettencourt, Franca and Borges 1907
  - Family Leucocytozoidae Fallis and Bennett 1961
    - Genus Akiba
    - Genus Leucocytozoon
  - Family Garniidae Lainson, Landau and Shaw 1971
    - Genus Fallisia
    - Genus Garnia
    - Genus Progarnia

References

^ Euzéby, J. (1988) Comparative Medical Protozoology, Vol. 3: Apicomplexa, 2: Haemosporidioses, Part 1: Plasmodiids, Haemoproteids, "Piroplasms" (general characters)