Neogregarinorida | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Alveolata |
Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
Class: | Conoidasida |
Subclass: | Gregarinasina |
Order: | Neogregarinorida Grassé & Schrével 1953 |
Families | |
The Neogregarinorida are an order of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa. [1] Species in this order infect insects and are usually found in the fat body, hemolymph, hypodermis, intestine or Malpighian tubules. The most common site of infection is the fat body: many species are pathogenic for their hosts.
The species in this order are predominantly intracellular parasites.
Six families are in this order, with 13 genera. The type genus is Ophryocystis .
Two families (Ophryocystidae and Schizocystidae) belong to the suborder Schizogregarinina.
They appear to have evolved from the Eugregarinorida. [2] Merogony as part of the life cycle separates them from the Eugregarinorida and appears to have been derived as a secondary characteristic.
A phylogenetic analysis of the small subunit RNA suggests Ophryocystis may actually be a eugregarine rather than a neogregarine. [3]