Conoidasida

Conoidasida
Eimeria maxima oocysts
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class:
Levine, 1988
Subclasses

Conoidasida is a class of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa. The class was defined in 1988 by Levine[1] and contains two subclasses – the coccidia and the gregarines. All members of this class have a complete, hollow, truncated conoid. Gregarines tend to parasitize invertebrates with the mature gamonts being extracellular; the coccidia mostly infect vertebrates and have intracellular gamonts.

  1. ^ Levine, N.D. (1988). The protozoan phylum Apicomplexa. The Protozoan Phylum Apicomplexa. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-4653-8.
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