- Piroplasmida
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name = "Piroplasmida"
regnum =Protist a
phylum =Apicomplexa
classis =Aconoidasida
subclass =Piroplasmia
ordo = Piroplasmida
subdivision_ranks= Families
subdivision =Babesiidae
*"Babesia "Theileriidae
*"Theileria "Dactylosomatidae
*"Dactylosoma " [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1550-7408.1964.tb01792.x]Piroplasms are an order of
protozoan parasite of thephylum Apicomplexa . [ [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?piroplasmida Definition: piroplasmida from Online Medical Dictionary ] ] [ [http://www.british-towns.net/nature/05_family_menu.asp?GetLOID=832 Flora and Fauna of the British Isles] ] They divide bybinary fission and assporozoan parasites they possesssexual andasexual phases (sexual reproduction occurs in the tick gut [ [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/80/10/2966 Rudzinska "et al." (1983) "Sexuality in Piroplasms as Revealed by Electron Microscopy in Babesia microti" "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.] ] ). They include thetick parasites "Babesia " and "Theileria ". [ [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?Theileriidae Definition: Theileriidae from Online Medical Dictionary ] ] [ [http://theileria.animaldiseases.org/index.php?Itemid=29&id=29&option=com_content&task=view Theleriosis: The causal organism and life cycle] ] .References
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