Trypanosoma antiquum

Triatoma dominicana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Trypanosomatina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Protozoa Subregnum: Eozoa Infraregnum: Euglenozoa Phylum: Euglenozoa Subphylum: Glycomonada Classis: Kinetoplastea Subclassis: Metakinetoplastina Ordo: Trypanosomatida Subordo: Trypanosomatina

Familia: Trypanosomatidae
Genus: Trypanosoma
Subgenus:T. (Schizotrypanum)
†T. antiquum

Name

• †Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) antiquum Poinar, 2005 ('"antiquus"')

Type locality

• Burdigalian 15-20 myo; Dominican amber, La Toca mine, Dominican Republic

Type material

Holotype: Number P-3-3; Poinar Amber Collection, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

References

• Poinar, G. 2005. Triatoma dominicana sp. n. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae), and Trypanosoma antiquus sp. n. (Stercoraria: Trypanosomatidae), the First Fossil Evidence of a Triatomine-Trypanosomatid Vector Association. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 5(1): 72–81. doi:10.1089/vbz.2005.5.72. PMID 15815152.