Laveraniina is a suborder of parasitic alveolates in the
phylum Apicomplexa
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. Th ...
. The taxon was erected in 1988 by
Jacques Euzéby.
[Euzéby J (1988) Comparative Medical Protozoology, Vol. 3: Apicomplexa, 2: Haemosporidioses, Part 1: Plasmodiids, Haemoproteids, Piroplasms (general characters)]
References
SAR supergroup suborders
Aconoidasida
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