Mesnilium
Mesnilium | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
(unranked): | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Infrakingdom: | Alveolata |
Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
Class: | Aconoidasida |
Order: | Haemospororida |
Family: | Plasmodiidae |
Genus: | Mesnilium Misra, Haldar and Chakravarty, 1972 |
Species: | M. malariae
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Binomial name | |
Mesnilium malariae Misra, Haldar & Chakravarty, 1972
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Mesnilium is a genus of parasitic alveolates belonging to the phylum Apicomplexia. Its vertebrate hosts are fish. The vectors are not presently known but are thought likely to be leeches.
Taxonomy[]
The genus was created in 1972 by Misra, Haldar and Chakravarty.[1]
Description[]
Merogony occurs in erythrocytes and reticulo-endothelial cells. Gamogony occurs only in erythrocytes and pigment granules are present only in and macrogametes.
Hosts[]
The only known host of this parasite is the freshwater murrel ().
References[]
- ^ Misra K.K., Haldar D.P. and Chakravarty M.M. (1972) Observations on Mesnilium malariae gen.nov., spec.nov. (Haemosporidia, Sporozoa) from the fresh water teleost, Ophicephalus punctatus Bloch. Arch. Protistenkd 114, 444-452
Categories:
- Haemosporida
- Apicomplexa genera
- Monotypic SAR supergroup genera
- Parasites of fish
- Apicomplexa stubs