Dactylosoma

Dactylosoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Conoidasida
Order: Eucoccidiorida
Family: Dactylosomatidae
Genus: Dactylosoma
Labbé, 1894
Species

Dactylosoma hannesi
Dactylosoma jahni
Dactylosoma lethrinorum
Dactylosoma mariae
Dactylosoma notopterae
Dactylosoma piperis
Dactylosoma ranarum (type-species)
Dactylosoma salvelini
Dactylosoma splendens
Dactylosoma sylvatica
Dactylosoma taiwanensis

Dactylosoma is a genus of parasitic alveolates of the phylum Apicomplexa.[1]

Species in this genus have two hosts in their life cycle: the vertebrate host is a fish or amphibian (possibly also reptiles) and the invertebrate host is a glossiphoniid leech (Glossiphoniidae).

  1. ^ Manwell RD (1964). "The genus Dactylosoma". J. Protozool. 11 (4): 526–30. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1964.tb01792.x. PMID 14231179.