Eimeria colchici Norton 1967

Malikova, Zamina K. & Ahmadov, Elshad I., 2023, Coccidial fauna of pheasants (Phasianus colchicus colchicus), Amurian Zoological Journal XV (1), pp. 155-161 : 158

Eimeria colchici Norton 1967 (Syn: Eimeria colchica Gottschalk 1972 )

The oocysts are oblong, ellipse-shaped, more rounded than on the other side, colorless. Hard-to-notice micropile and polar granules. Sporocysts have a well-observed Stieda body. The maximum length of E. colchici oocysts found in pheasants ( Ph.colchicus colchicus ) is 33.50 μm; the minimum length — 17.80 μm; the maximum width is 22.0 μm; the minimum width — 13.0 μm; on average the size is 25.84 ± 5.71 × 16.68 ± 3.19 μm. The form index varies between 1.37–1.60; on average it is 1.55 ± 0.07 (Table 2).