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| Suborder: | Blastogregarinorina Chatton & Villeneuve 1936
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Blastogregarinorina is a suborder of parasitic alveolates of the phylum Apicomplexia
Taxonomy[edit]
This suborder currently has one family with one genus which contains one species Siedleckia caulleryi. This species is found in marine polychaetes.
History[edit]
This suborder was described by Chatton and Villeneuve in 1936[1]
Description[edit]
A mucron is present
Syzygy does not occur.
The gamonts are composed of a single structure without septa: they lack both protomerites and deutomerites.
Anisogamy — unequal sized gamonts — is present. Gamogony occurs with gamonts still attached to intestinal wall. The gametes bud off gamonts. Gametocysts are absent
There is no sporocyst.
The zygote gives rise to 10–16 oocysts.
References[edit]
- ^ Levine ND (1973). "Grellia gen. n. for Eucoccidium of Grell (1953) Preoccupied". J Protozool. 20 (5): 548–9. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1973.tb03569.x.