Trypanosomatidae

Leishmania tropica

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
Subfamilies: Blechomonadinae – Herpetomonadinae – Leishmaniinae – Paratrypanosomatinae – Strigomonadinae – Trypanosomatinae

Genera: Angomonas – Blastocrithidia – Crithidia – Endotrypanum – Herpetomonas – Leishmania – Leptomonas – †Paleoleishmania – Paraleishmania – Phytomonas – Rhynchoidomonas – Sauroleishmania – Sergeia – Strigomonas – Trypanosoma – Wallacemonas

Name

Trypanosomatidae Grassi, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. 24: 141. 1882 (“Trypanosomata”).

Synonyms

• Herpetomonadidae Castellani & Chalmers, Man Trop. Med.: 273. 1910 (“Herpetomonidae”).
• Trypanophidae Poche ex Hollande in Grassé, Traité Zool. 1(1): 680. 1952.
• Cystotrypanosomatini Chalmers in Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 3: 396. 1919 (“Cystotrypaneae”), pro zool. trib.

References

Primary references

• Castellani, A. & Chalmers, A.J. 1910. Manual of Tropical Medicine. London: Baillière; New York: W. Wood and Company. 1242 pp. PDF Reference page. 
• Castellani, A. & Chalmers, A.J. 1919. Manual of Tropical Medicine. London: Baillière; New York: W. Wood and Company. 3rd edition. 2436 pp. PDF Reference page. 

Additional references

• Merzlyak, E.; Yurchenko, V.; Kolesnikov, A.A.; Alexandrov, K.; Podlipaev, S.A.; Maslov, D.A. 2001. Diversity and phylogeny of insect trypanosomatids based on small subunit rRNA genes: polyphyly of Leptomonas and Blastocrithidia. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 48 (2): 161–169. DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2001.tb00298.x
• Simpson, A.G.B.; Stevens, J.R.; Lukeš, J. 2006. The evolution and diversity of kinetoplastid flagellates. Trends in Parasitology 22: 168–174. DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2006.02.006
• Svobodová, M.; Zídková, L.; Cepicka, I.; Oborník, M.; Lukes, J.; Votypka, J. 2007. Sergeia podlipaevi gen. nov., sp. nov. (Trypanosomatidae, Kinetoplastida), a parasite of biting midges (Ceratopogonidae, Diptera). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 57: 423–432. DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.64557-0
• Teixeira, M.M.; Borghesan, T.C.; Ferreira, R.C.; Santos, M.A.; Takata, C.S.; Campaner, M.; Nunes, V.L.; Milder, R.V.; de Souza, W.; Camargo, E.P. 2011. Phylogenetic Validation of the Genera Angomonas and Strigomonas of Trypanosomatids Harboring Bacterial Endosymbionts with the Description of New Species of Trypanosomatids and of Proteobacterial Symbionts. Protist DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2011.01.001
• Kostygov, A.Yu., Grybchuk-Ieremenko, A., Malysheva, M.N., Frolov, A.O. & Yurchenko, V. 2014. Molecular revision of the genus Wallaceina. Protist 165(5): 594–604. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2014.07.001 Reference page. 

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