Euduboscquella Duboscq & Collin (1910)
Diagnosis
Diagnosis_Genus: Euduboscquella Coats & Bachvaroff 2012. Euduboscquellidae with trophont episome as disc-shaped shield bordered by a perinematic ring. Lamina pharyngea extending from perinematic ring into trophont cytoplasm. Food vacuole formed as trophont emerges from host giving rise to extracellular tomont. Multiple spore morphotypes possible, including dinokont and non-dinokont cells. Individual infections producing only one type of spore.
Unknown species of Eudosboscquella (missing criteria).
Etymology
Genus name is derived from the Greek eu- (= well, normal) and the genus name Duboscquella.
Ecology
Substrate: endozoic (endoparasite)
Sociability: solitary
Salinity: marine
pH: neutral
Life cycle
Generation: <1 month
Reproduction_mode: asexual
Symbiont: horizontal
Feeding behaviour
Mode of locomotion
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Observation site(s)
HOSTS
Association with... | Region origin | Name of site | In reference... |
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Favella ehrenbergii | Sète |
Sur la reproduction sexuée d'un protiste parasite des tintinnides. C.R. Séances Soc. Biol. Paris 151:340-341. (1910) |