Filipodium

Not to be confused with Filopodium.

Filipodium
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
(unranked):
Sar
(unranked):
Alveolata
Phylum:
Miozoa
Subphylum:
Myzozoa
Infraphylum:
Dinozoa
Class:
Squirmidea[1]
Order:
Squirmida
Family:
Filipodiidae
Genus:
Filipodium

Hukui 1939
Species
  • F. aspidosiphoni Tuzet & Ormières 1965
  • F. ozakai Hukui 1939
  • F. phascolosomae Rueckert & Leander 2009

Filipodium is a genus of parasites in the phylum Apicomplexa. Species in this genus infect marine invertebrates.

This genus was described by Hukui in 1939.[2]

  1. ^ Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (2014). "Gregarine site-heterogeneous 18S rDNA trees, revision of gregarine higher classification, and the evolutionary diversification of Sporozoa". European Journal of Protistology. 50 (5): 472–495. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2014.07.002. PMID 25238406.
  2. ^ Hukui (1939). "On the gregarines from Siphonosoma kumanense (Kefer-stein), Spengel". J Sci Hiroshima Uni Zool. 7: 1–23.