Genus Enterocytozoon Desportes Le Charpentier, Galian, Bernard, Cochand-Priollet, Lavergne, Ravisse & Modigliani, 1985

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Regional Maps

• Enterocytozoon Desportes, I., Le Charpentier, Y., Galian, A., Bernard, F., Cochand-Priollet, B., Lavergne, A., Ravisse, P., & Modigliani R. 1985. Occurrence of a new microsporidan: Enterocytozoon bieneusi n. g., n. sp. in the enterocytes of a human patient with AIDS. Journal of Protozoology 32(2): 250-254.

  Type species:

   Enterocytozoon bieneusi Desportes, le Charpentier, Galian, Bernard, Cochand-Priollet, Levergne, Ravisse & Modigliani, 1985 by monotypy.

Introduction

Based on ribosomal DNA sequence data, the Microsporidia are recognised as Fungi and not Protists. At present Australian Biological Resource Study has retained the Microsporidia as a phylum in the Protists for historical comparative purposes.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic.

History of changes