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RECORD NUMBER: 1 OF 1Main Title | Taxonomy of North American fish eimeriidae / | |||||||||||
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Author | Upton, Steve J. | |||||||||||
CORP Author | United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. | |||||||||||
Publisher | United States Government Printing Office, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1984 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 11500803 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Eimeria--Research--United States ; Eimeriidae ; Fishes--North America--Classification | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Fishes--North America--Classification | |||||||||||
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Collation | iii, 18 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | "August 1984." Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-12). |
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Contents Notes | Taxonomic descriptions, line drawings, and references are given for the 30 named and 5 unnamed species of North American fish Eimeriidae. In addition, a key was developed based on available morphologic data to distinguish between similar species. Taxa are divided into two genera: Eimeria (27 species) which are tetrasporocystic with dizoic, nonbivalved sporocysts, and Goussia (3 species) which are tetrasporocystic with dizoic, bivalved sporocysts that lack Stieda bodies and have sporocyst walls composed of two longitudinal valves. The phylum Apicomplexa Levine, 1970, comprises about 4,000 species of totally parasitic protozoa which include the gregarines, haemogregarines, coccidia, malaria, and piroplasms. The largest family in the phylum is the Eimeriidae Minchin, 1903, which contains nearly 1, 400 names species; over 75% of which belong to a single genus Eimeria. |