Exoschizon

Exoschizon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Sar
(unranked):	Alveolata
Phylum:	Apicomplexa
Class:	Conoidasida
Subclass:	Gregarinasina
Order:	Archigregarinorida
Family:	Exoschizonidae
Genus:	Exoschizon

Exoschizon is a genus in the phylum Apicomplexa.

This genus was created by Levine in 1971.

There is one genus currently recognised in this family - Exoschizon. This genus has only one species - Exoschizon siphonosomae - which was described by Hukui in 1939.

This species was found in the intestine of a sipunculid worm (Siphonosoma cumanense) in Japan.

The meronts measure 90 µm × 15 µm. There are ~13 longitudinal striations per side.

The meronts and gamonts are similarly shaped.

Transmission is presumably by the orofaecal route.

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