Monocystis darjeelingensis Bandyopadhyay &Mitra, 2005

Sarkar, Sutapa & Bandyopadhyay, Probir K., 2013, A checklist of the species under the genus Monocystis Von Stein, 1848 (Apicomplexa: Sporozoa: Monocystidae) described from oligochaete hosts, Zootaxa 3710 (4), pp. 381-388 : 383

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3710.4.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5B76EC26-3663-4725-9F2F-6F19F149F303
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6146882
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scientific name	Monocystis darjeelingensis Bandyopadhyay &Mitra, 2005
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10) Monocystis darjeelingensis Bandyopadhyay &Mitra, 2005

Infested organ. Seminal vesicles

Type host. Amynthus robusta

Type locality. Senchal, Darjeeling, India

Description. Gamonts of M. darjeelingensis are cylindroids in shape: 210.0 − 273.0 (231.0 ± 2.0) µm × 84.0 − 40.0 (98.0±1.8) µm. Nucleus spheroid or ovoid with 26.0 − 40.0 (31.0±0.5) µm × 20.0 − 32.0 (27.0±0.5) µm. Spherical gametocyst measures 147.0 − 163.0 (156.0±0.4) µm; navicular oocyst measures 15.4 − 18.0 (17.0 ±1.0)µm × 8.0 − 9.0 (8.2 ±0.5) µm.