''Blastogregarinorina'' is a suborder of parasitic alveolates of 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 suborder currently has one family with one genus which contains one species '' Siedleckia caulleryi''. This species is found in marine

polychaete Polychaeta () is a paraphyletic class of generally marine annelid worms, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes (). Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called chaetae, which are made ...

History

This suborder was described by Chatton and Villeneuve in 1936

Description

A mucron is present Syzygy does not occur. The gamonts are composed of a single structure without septa: they lack both protomerites and deutomerites. Anisogamy — unequal sized gamonts — is present. Gamogony occurs with gamonts still attached to intestinal wall. The

gamete A gamete (; , ultimately ) is a haploid cell that fuses with another haploid cell during fertilization in organisms that reproduce sexually. Gametes are an organism's reproductive cells, also referred to as sex cells. In species that produce ...

s bud off gamonts. Gametocysts are absent There is no sporocyst. The

zygote A zygote (, ) is a eukaryotic cell formed by a fertilization event between two gametes. The zygote's genome is a combination of the DNA in each gamete, and contains all of the genetic information of a new individual organism. In multicell ...

gives rise to 10–16 oocysts.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q16975168 SAR supergroup suborders Conoidasida