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Superfamily: | Porosporicae Chakravarty 1960 |
Family: | Porosporidae Labbé 1899 |
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Porosporidae is a family of parasitic alveolates of the phylum Apicomplexia
This family has 3 genera - Pachyporospora , Porospora and Nematopsis - and 37 species.
The members of this family are distinguished from the other septate gregarines by having a digenic (two host) life cycle.
This taxon was created in 1899 by Labbé. [1]
The species in this family are heteroxenous, meaning they live in two separate hosts during their life cycle. The two host species involved in their life cycle are a crustacean and a mollusc. The life cycle involves vegetative development in digestive tract of a decapod crustacean and sporogony in the connective tissue of a lamellibranch mollusc.