Bombina Oken 1816

Duszynski, Donald W., Bolek, Matthew G. & Upton, Steve J., 2007, Coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) of amphibians of the world, Zootaxa 1667 (1667), pp. 1-77 : 13

Host genus Bombina Oken 1816

(8 spp.)

Remarks: The only time a coccidium was reported (to date) from a member of this genus was when Golemansky and Bitseva (1975) said they found Isospora lieberkühni in B. variegata (L.) in Bulgaria. However, Isospora lieberkühni has been an enigmatic organism that has perplexed coccidiologists since it was first reported by Lieberkühn (1854) as a renal coccidium of European water frogs. It was not until Modrý et al. (2001) sequenced the small-subunit (SSU) rRNA that its’ true taxonomic position was established. What had been called I. lieberkühni is now placed in the newly re-erected genus Hyaloklossia Labbé 1896 (see Remarks under Hyaloklossia liegerküehni ).