Gregarinae

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<==Gregarinae [Gregarinea, Gregarinia]
   |  i. s.: Pleurocystis
   |         Zygocystis
   |         Eugregarinida
   |           |  i. s.: Actinocephalus megabuni
   |           |         Anthorhynchus
   |           |           |--A. longispora
   |           |           `--A. sophiae
   |           |         Arachnocystis arachnoidea
   |           |         Contospora opalniae
   |           |         Cosmetophilus vonones
   |           |         Doliospora
   |           |           |--D. repelini
   |           |           `--D. troguli
   |           |         Echinoocysta phalangii
   |           |         Sciadiophora
   |           |           |--S. caudata
   |           |           |--S. claviformis
   |           |           |--S. fissidens
   |           |           |--S. gagrellula
   |           |           |--S. geronowitschi
   |           |           `--S. phalangii
   |           `--Urosporidae
   |                |--Gonospora mercieri (see below for synonymy)
   |                |--Diplodina gonadipertha
   |                |--Cystobia
   |                |    |--C. holothuriae (Schneider 1858) [=Gregarina holothuriae]
   |                |    |--C. irregularis (Minchin 1893) (see below for synonymy)
   |                |    `--C. stichopi
   |                |--Urospora
   |                |    |--U. chiridotae (Dogiel 1906) [=Cystobia chiridotae]
   |                |    |--U. echinocardii
   |                |    |--U. neapolitana
   |                |    `--U. synaptae (Cuénot 1891) [=Syncystis synaptae]
   |                `--Lithocystis
   |                     |--L. brachycercus
   |                     |--L. cucumariae
   |                     |--L. foliacea
   |                     |--L. microspora
   |                     |--L. minchinii (Woodcock 1904) (see below for synonymy)
   |                     `--L. schneideri
   |--Lecudina
   |--Selenidium
   |    |--S. terebellae
   |    `--S. vivax
   `--+--Monocystis agilis
      `--+--+--Ophriocystis eletroscirrha
         |  `--Mattesia geminata
         `--+--Leidyana migrator
            `--Gregarina
                 |--G. cuneata
                 |--G. niphandrodes
                 |--G. polymorpha
                 `--G. steini

Cystobia irregularis (Minchin 1893) [=Gregarina irregularis, Diplodina irregularis, Gonospora irregularis]

Gonospora mercieri [incl. Lithocystis muelleri Giard 1886, Syncystis muelleri, Urospora muelleri, Esarabdina synaptae Mingazzini 1891]

Lithocystis minchinii (Woodcock 1904) [=Cystobia minchinii, Diplodina minchinii]

* Type species of generic name indicated

References

Barel, C. D. N., & P. G. N. Kramers. 1977. A survey of the echinoderm associates of the north-east Atlantic area. Zoologische Verhandelingen 156: 1-159.

Cavalier-Smith, T. 2004. Only six kingdoms of life. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B – Biological Sciences 271: 1251-1262.

Cokendolpher, J. C., & P. G. Mitov. 2007. Natural enemies. In Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones (R. Pinto-da-Rocha, G. Machado & G. Giribet, eds.) pp. 339-373. Harvard University Press: Cambridge (Massachusetts).

Curds, C. R. 1979. Group phenomena in the phylum Protozoa. In Biology and Systematics of Colonial Organisms (G. Larwood & B. R. Rosen, eds.) pp. 29-37. Academic Press: London.

Leander, B. S., R. E. Clopton & P. J. Keeling. 2003. Phylogeny of gregarines (Apicomplexa) as inferred from small-subunit rDNA and β-tubulin. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 345-354.

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