Dorisa

Dorisa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Sar
(unranked):	Alveolata
Phylum:	Apicomplexa
Class:	Conoidasida
Subclass:	Coccidiasina
Order:	Eucoccidiorida
Suborder:	Eimeriorina
Family:	Eimeriidae
Genus:	Dorisa
Species
	Dorisa aethiopsaris; Dorisa arizonensis; Dorisa bengalensis; Dorisa chakravartyi; Dorisa graculae; Dorisa hareni; Dorisa harpia; Dorisa hoarei; Dorisa indica; Dorisa mandali; Dorisa passeries; Dorisa rayi; Dorisa vagabundae

Dorisa is a genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa.

The genus was separated from the genus Dorisiella by Levine in 1980.^[1] Dorisiella was created for a parasite infecting a marine polychaete by Ray in 1930. Levine separated off a number of species that while morphologically similar occurred in vertebrates rather that polychaetes.

^ Levine ND (1980) Dorisa n. gen. (Protozoa, Apicomplexa, Eimeriidae). J Parasitol 66(1):11

[Levine1980-1] Levine ND (1980) Dorisa n. gen. (Protozoa, Apicomplexa, Eimeriidae). J Parasitol 66(1):11

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