Eimeria couesii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Alveolata |
Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
Class: | Conoidasida |
Order: | Eucoccidiorida |
Family: | Eimeriidae |
Genus: | Eimeria |
Species: | E. couesii
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Binomial name | |
Eimeria couesii Kruidenier, Levine, and Ivens, 1960
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Eimeria couesii is an apicomplexan parasite of the genus Eimeria that infects the intestine of the rice rat Oryzomys couesi in Mexico. [1] It has an oocyst residuum and Stieda bodies, structures that are absent in some other Eimeria. [2]