Monocystis levinei Bandyopadhyay et al. 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 : 384

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.6146890

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039087D0-1412-5A24-FF04-6378B7776609

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Monocystis levinei Bandyopadhyay et al. 2005
status

 

14) Monocystis levinei Bandyopadhyay et al. 2005

Infested organ. Seminal vesicles

Type host. Eutyphoeus incommodus

Type locality. Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India

Description. Gamonts are elongated in shape, measuring 145.0 − 175.0 (163.0±1.5) µm × 18.0 − 43.0 (29.0±1.1) µm with a prominent tail like protrusion at the posterior end. Rounded nucleus measuring 14.2 − 26.3 (22.3±7.3) µm × 18.4 − 30.5 (26.4±2.6) µm. Gametocysts are ovoid in shape ranging from 130.0 − 163.0 (152.0±0.4) µm, whereas oocysts are navicular in shape, ranging in size from 8.9 − 12.0 (10.4±1.0) µm × 5.2 − 7.3 (6.9±0.5) µm.

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF