A description of two new species of coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from African reptiles with nomenclatural corrections for two Caryospora and one Eimeria species from snakes

• Published in: Folia Parasitologica
• Main Authors: Daszak, Peter, Ball, Stanley John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Coccidia; Apicomplexa; Eimeriidae; Eimeria; Caryospora; Reptilia; Sauria; Serpentes; Gerrhosaurus; Chamaeleo; Dendroaspis; Python; Psammophis; Bray; Hoare; sami
• Online Access: https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/view/uuid:626e2b26-1022-4542-a3fe-68afbdd27f7e; https://doi.org/10.14411/fp.2001.001

Two new species of coccidian parasites are described from African reptiles. Oocysts of Eimeria foulshami sp. n. from the plated lizard Gerrhosaurus major bottegoi Del Prato of Sudan are ellipsoidal, 24.1 × 14.9 (23-26.5 × 14-17.8) µm with a bilayered, colourless oocyst wall and lack polar granules....