Aseptatorina
| Aseptatorina | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Chromalveolata |
| Superphylum: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa Levine 1970 |
| Class: | Conoidasida Levine 1988 |
| Subclass: | Gregarinasina Dufour 1828 |
| Order: | Eugregarinorida Léger 1900 |
| Families | |
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Aikinetocystidae | |
Aseptatorina is a suborder of parasitic protozoa of the phylum Apicomplexia
Taxonomy
There are eleven families recognised in this suborder. There are ~400 species in these families.
Five families - Allantocystidae, Diplocystidae, Enterocystidae, Ganymedidae and Schaudinnellidae - have only one genus. Aikinetocystidae has two genera.
Two families in this suborder - Ganymedidae and Thiriotiidae - infect crustaceans.
The taxonomy of this suborder may be in need of revision as it has been shown based on SSU 18S rDNA sequences that four families - Ganymedidae from the Aseptatorina and Cephalolobidae, Porosporidae and Uradiophoridae from the Septatorina appear to form a superfamily.[1] The name Cephaloidophoroidea has been proposed for this superfamily
History
This suborder was created by Chakravarty in 1960.
References
- ↑ Rueckert S, Simdyanov TG, Aleoshin VV, Leander BS (2011) Identification of a divergent environmental DNA sequence clade using the phylogeny of gregarine parasites (Apicomplexa) from crustacean hosts. PLoS ONE 6:e18163
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