Biology:Gibbsia archiuli

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Short description: Species of single-celled organism

Gibbsia archiuli
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Conoidasida
Order: Eucoccidiorida
Family: Adeleidae
Genus: Gibbsia
Levine 1986
Species:
G. archiuli
Binomial name
Gibbsia archiuli
Levine 1986

Gibbsia is a genus of parasitic alveolates of the phylum Apicomplexa.

There is only one species known in this genus, Gibbsia archiuli.

Taxonomy

This genus was created by Levine for a species of protozoa that was discovered by Gibbs in 1952.[1]

Description

The only known species in this genus was found in South Africa .

It infects the garden millipede (Archiulus moreleti).

Merogony, gamogony and sporogony occur within the host's blood cells.

Microgametes are not flagellated.

Oocysts contain four sporocysts. Each sporocyst has a single sporozoite.

References

  1. Levine ND (1986) Gibbsia archiuli (Apicomplexa, Eucoccidiorida) n. g., n. sp. from the millipede Archiulus moreleti. Journal of Protozoology 33 (2) 300–301

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