Hexamita

Hexamita

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Distomatida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Protozoa Subregnum: Eozoa Infraregnum: Excavata Phylum: Metamonada Subphylum: Trichozoa Superclassis: Eopharyngia Classis: Trepomonadea Subclassis: Diplozoa Ordo: Distomatida

Familia: Hexamitidae
Genus: Hexamita
Species: H. intestinalis – H. mugilis – H. parva – H. pitheci – H. teres

Name

Hexamita Dujard., Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. Ser. 2, 10: 20 (1838)

• Type species: Hexamita nodulosa Dujard. Hist. Nat. Zooph. Infus. 296 (1841)

• Unaccepted spelling: Hexamitus Bütschli, 1884, p. 843

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Urophagus G.A.Klebs, Z. Wiss. Zool. 55: 341 (1892)
    • Type species: Urophagus rostratus (F.Stein) G.A.Klebs (1892)

References

Primary references

• Bütschli, O. 1883–1887. Protozoa. Band 1. II. Abteilung: Mastigophora. In: Dr. H.G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs. [1883: pp. 617–784; 1884: pp. 785–864; 1885: pp. 865–1088; 1887: pp. 1089–1097.] Leipzig: C.F. Winter. BHL Reference page. 
• Dujardin, F. 1838. Sur les Monades à filament multiple. Annales des sciences naturelles. Zoologie (sér. 2), 10: 17–21. BHL Reference page. 
• Klebs, G. 1892. Flagellatenstudien. Theil I. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 55: 265–351. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kulda, J. & Nohýnková, E. 1978. Flagellates of the human intestine and of intestines of other species. In: Kreier, J. P. (Ed.), Parasitic Protozoa. Intestinal flagellates, histomonads, trichomonads, amoeba, opalinids, and ciliates. New York-San Francisco-London: Academic Press, 2: 1-138. Reference page.