Three species of Eimeria Schneider are described from feces of the African bathyergid rodent, Heliophobius argenteocinereus, from Malawi. Oocysts of Eimeria heliophobii n. sp. are broadly ellipsoidal; 27.9 (22–31) × 22.3 (18–24.5) μm with a brownish, heavily pitted oocyst wall, and vacuolar oocyst residuum. Sporocysts are oval, 12.8 (12–14) × 8.4 (8–9) μm with Stieda and substieda bodies. Eimeria nafuko n. sp. has subspherical oocysts; 15.5 (15–16) × 12.8 (12–13) μm with a smooth, colorless oocyst wall. Sporocysts are oval, 9.2 (9–10) × 5.3 (5–6) μm, with a small Stieda body; the substieda body is not visible. Oocysts of Eimeria yamikamiae n. sp. are broadly ellipsoidal to subspherical; 20.8 (19–22) × 17.5 (15.5–19) μm, with slightly yellowish, very faintly pitted oocyst wall. The majority of oocysts contained a single spherical vesicular oocyst residuum and numerous very small granules. Sporocysts are oval, 10.7 (10–11) × 6.8. (6–7) μm, with a dome -like Stieda body and a subspherical to lentil-like substieda body. Typically, infected rodents shed oocysts of more than 1 species of Eimeria.
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1 October 2005
THREE NEW SPECIES OF EIMERIA (APICOMPLEXA: EIMERIIDAE) FROM THE SILVERY MOLE RAT HELIOPHOBIUS ARGENTEOCINEREUS PETERS, 1846 (RODENTIA: BATHYERGIDAE) FROM MALAWI
D. Modrý,
M. Jirků,
R. Šumbera
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