On a new family of non-pigmented parasites in the blood of reptiles: Garniidae fam. nov., (Coccidiida: Haemosporidiidea). Some species of the new genus Garnia
1971; Elsevier BV; Volume: 1; Issue: 3-4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0020-7519(71)90027-0
ISSN1879-0135
AutoresR. Lainson, Irène Landau, Jeffrey Jon Shaw,
Tópico(s)Vector-borne infectious diseases
ResumoA new family, Garniidae, has been erected within the Suborder Haemosporidiidea (Protozoa: Sporozoa), for certain blood-parasites of South American lizards. Members of this family are differentiated from those of the Plasmodiidae and Haemoproteidae by their failure to produce malarial pigment when developing in the erythrocytes, and from members of the Leucocytozoidae by their schizogony in the red and white cells of the peripheral blood. Some parasites previously described as Plasmodium species in Panamanian lizards have been transferred to the new genus Garnia, and two new species are described from lizards in Brazil. Vectors and sporogonic stages are as yet unknown.
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