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- Title
A NEW SPECIES OF ISOSPORA (APICOMPLEXA: EIMERIIDAE) INFECTING THE BAIUCH ROCK GECKO, BUNOPUS TUBERCULATUS, IN SAUDI ARABIA.
- Authors
Abdel-Baki, A. S.; Al-Quraishy, S.; Al Otaibi, M. S. A.; Duszynski, D. W.
- Abstract
Isospora bors n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) is described from 6 of 30 (20%) Baiuch rock gecko Bunopus tuberculatus Blanford in Saudi Arabia. Sporulated oocysts are subspheroidal to spheroidal, 18 × 16 (17-20 × 15-17) μm, with a bilayered, smooth, yellow-orange wall, without striae or micropyle. Polar body and oocyst residuum, both absent. Sporocysts are ovoidal, 10×7 (9-11 × 6-9) um, with a Stieda body and sporocyst residuum. Endogenous stages developed in the cytoplasm of epithelial cells of the small intestine and above the host cell nucleus
- Subjects
APICOMPLEXA; PROTOZOA; EIMERIIDAE; COCCIDIA; GECKOS
- Publication
Journal of Parasitology, 2013, Vol 99, Issue 6, p1019
- ISSN
0022-3395
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1645/13-265.1