Belongs within: Coccidia.
Eimeria is a genus of coccidians in which oocysts contain four sporocysts, each with two sporozoites (Perkins et al. 2002).
Eimeria Schneider 1875 (see below for synonymy)PB02
|--*E. falciformis (Eimer 1870)PB02
|--E. acervulinaSM03
|--E. alabamensisMO08
|--E. antrozoiSM10
|--E. arloingiK92
|--E. bovisSM10
|--E. canis Wenyon 1923M58
|--E. catroneSM10
|--E. cunnamullensis Mykytowycz 1964M64
|--E. debliecki Douwes 1921M58
|--E. faurei (Moussu & Marotel 1901)M58
|--E. fausti Yakimoff & Matschoulsky 1936M64
|--E. gadiK-M02
|--‘Globidium’ gilruthi (Chatton 1910)M58
|--E. granulosaM64
|--E. gungahlinensis Mykytowycz 1964M64
|--E. hestermani Mykytowycz 1964M64
|--E. indianensisMS98
|--E. intestinalisK92
|--E. irresidua Kessel & Jankiewicz 1931M58
|--E. kogoni Mykytowycz 1964M64
|--E. labbeanaMS98
|--E. lobatoiPB02
|--E. macropodis Wenyon & Scott 1925M64
|--E. magna Pérard 1928M58
|--E. marsupialum Yakimoff & Matschoulsky 1936M64
|--E. maximaK92
|--E. media Kessel 1929M58
|--E. meleagrimitisMO08
|--E. miraPB02
|--E. mitisK92
|--E. mivatiK92
|--E. neitzi McCully et al. 1970PB02
|--E. nieschulzi Dieben 1924M58
|--E. ninaekohlyakimovaeM64
|--E. parvaM64
|--E. perforans (Leuckart 1879)M58
|--E. pilarensisSM10
|--E. piriformisM64
|--E. purchasei Mykytowycz 1964M64
|--E. reichenowi Yakimoff & Matschoulsky 1935PB02
|--E. rufusi Prasad 1960M64
|--E. sardinaeM02
|--E. scardiniiSBW95
|--E. stiedai (Lindemann 1896)PB02
|--E. toganmainensis Mykytowycz 1964M64
|--E. truncataK92
`--E. wilcanniensis Mykytowycz 1964M64
Eimeria Schneider 1875 [incl. Acroeimeria Paperna & Landsberg 1989, Acystis Labbé 1894, Bananella Labbé 1895, Choleoeimeria Paperna & Landsberg 1989, Coccidium Leuckart 1879, Crystallospora Labbé 1899, Cytophagus Steinhaus 1891, Cytospermium Rivolta 1878, Eimeriella Stiles 1901, Epieimeria Dykova & Lom 1981, Globidium Flesch 1894, Jarrina Léger & Hesse 1922, Karyophagus Steinhaus 1889, Caryophagus (l. c.), Marotelia Ratz 1905, Orthospora Schneider 1881, Paracoccidium Laveran & Mesnil 1902, Pfeifferella Labbé 1899, Pfeifferia Labbé 1894 non Gray 1853, Psorospermium Rivolta 1878]PB02
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[K-M02] Klein-MacPhee, G. 2002. Cods. Family Gadidae. In: Collette, B. B., & G. Klein-MacPhee (eds) Bigelow and Schroeder’s Fishes of the Gulf of Maine 3rd ed. pp. 223–261. Smithsonian Institute Press: Washington.
[K92] Krylov, M. V. 1992. The origin of heteroxeny in Sporozoa. Parazitologiya 26 (5): 361–368.
[M58] Mackerras, M. J. 1958. Catalogue of Australian mammals and their recorded internal parasites. I–IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 83 (2): 101–160.
[MS98] Margulis, L., & K. V. Schwartz. 1998. Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth 3rd ed. W. H. Freeman and Company: New York.
[MO08] Moore, R. B., M. Oborník, J. Janouškovec, T. Chrudimský, M. Vancová, D. H. Green, S. W. Wright, N. W. Davies, C. J. S. Bolch, K. Heimann, J. Šlapeta, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, J. M. Logsdon, Jr. & D. A. Carter. 2008. A photosynthetic alveolate closely related to apicomplexan parasites. Nature 451: 959–963.
[M02] Munroe, T. A. 2002. Herrings. Family Clupeidae. In: Collette, B. B., & G. Klein-MacPhee (eds) Bigelow and Schroeder’s Fishes of the Gulf of Maine 3rd ed. pp. 111–160. Smithsonian Institute Press: Washington.
[M64] Mykytowycz, R. 1964. Coccidia in wild populations of the red kangaroo, Megaleia rufa (Desmarest), and the grey kangaroo, Macropus canguru (Müller). Parasitology 54: 105–115.
[PB02] Perkins, F. O., J. R. Barta, R. E. Clopton, M. A. Peirce & S. J. Upton. 2002. Phylum Apicomplexa Levine, 1970. In: Lee, J. J., G. F. Leedale & P. Bradbury (eds) An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa: Organisms traditionally referred to as Protozoa, or newly discovered groups 2nd ed. vol. 1 pp. 190–369. Society of Protozoologists: Lawrence (Kansas).
[SM10] Saffo, M. B., A. M. McCoy, C. Rieken & C. H. Slamovits. 2010. Nephromyces, a beneficial apicomplexan symbiont in marine animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 107 (37): 16190–16195.
[SM03] Saldarriaga, J. F., M. L. McEwan, N. M. Fast, F. J. R. Taylor & P. J. Keeling. 2003. Multiple protein phylogenies show that Oxyrrhis marina and Perkinsus marinus are early branches of the dinoflagellate lineage. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 355–365.
[SBW95] Stauffer, J. R., Jr, J. M. Boltz & L. R. White. 1995. The fishes of West Virginia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 146: 1–389.