Garniidae

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Diaphoretickes
Cladus: Tsar
Cladus: Sar
Infraregnum: Alveolata
Phylum: Myzozoa
Subphylum: Apicomplexa
Infraphylum: Sporozoa
Classis: Aconoidasida
Ordo: Haemospororida
Familia: Garniidae
Genera: Fallisia – Garnia – Progamia

Type genus: Garnia Lainson, Landau & Shaw, 1971

Lainson, R.; Landau, I.; Shaw, J.J. 1971. On a new family of non-pigmented parasites in the blood of reptiles: Garniidae fam. nov., (Coccidiida: Haemosporidiidea). Some species of the new genus Garnia. International Journal for Parasitology 1 (3-4): 241–244.
Lainson, R. 1995. Progarnia archosauriae nov. gen., nov. sp. (Haemosporina: Garniidae), a blood parasite of Caiman crocodilus crocodilus (Archosauria: Crocodilia), and comments on the evolution of reptilian and avian haemosporines. Parasitology 110: 513–519. DOI: 10.1017/S0031182000065227