Bioccala is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of parasitic

alveolates The alveolates (meaning "pitted like a honeycomb") are a group of protists, considered a major clade and superphylum within Eukarya. They are currently grouped with the stramenopiles and Rhizaria among the protists with tubulocristate mitochond ...

belonging to the phylum

Apicomplexia The Apicomplexa (also called Apicomplexia) are a large phylum of parasitic alveolates. Most of them possess a unique form of organelle that comprises a type of non-photosynthetic plastid called an apicoplast, and an apical complex structure. ...

Taxonomy

This subgenus was raised to

status by Landau ''et al.'' in 1984.

Hosts

* Big brown bat ('' Eptesicus fuscus'') * Intermediate roundleaf bat (''

Hipposideros larvatus The intermediate roundleaf bat (''Hipposideros larvatus'') is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam Vietnam or Viet N ...

'')

Distribution

These parasites are found in Colombia and Thailand.

References

Apicomplexa genera Haemosporida {{Apicomplexa-stub de:Plasmodiidae