Porosporidae

Porosporidae is a family of parasitic alveolates of the phylum Apicomplexia

Porosporidae
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
(unranked):
SAR
(unranked):
Alveolata
Phylum:
Apicomplexa
Class:
Conoidasida
Subclass:
Gregarinasina
Order:
Eugregarinorida
Suborder:
Septatorina
Superfamily:
Porosporicae

Chakravarty 1960
Family:
Porosporidae

Labbé 1899
Genera

Pachyporospora
Porospora
Nematopsis

Taxonomy

This family has 3 genera - Pachyporospora, Porospora and Nematopsis - and 37 species.

The members of this family are distinguished from the other septate gregarines by having a digenic (two host) life cycle.

History

This taxon was created in 1899 by Labbé.[1]

Description

The species in this family are heteroxenous, meaning they live in two separate hosts during their life cycle. The two host species involved in their life cycle are a crustacean and a mollusc. The life cycle involves vegetative development in digestive tract of a decapod crustacean and sporogony in the connective tissue of a lamellibranch mollusc.

References
  1. Labbé A (1899) Sporozoa. In Das Tierreich: Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen, Schulze, F. E. & Bütschli, O. (eds.). R. Friedländer und Sohn, Berlin: Germany


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