Dorisa
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| Dorisa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Superphylum: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
| Class: | Conoidasida |
| Order: | Eucoccidiorida |
| Family: | Eimeriidae |
| Genus: | Dorisa Levine, 1980 |
| Species | |
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Dorisa aethiopsaris | |
Dorisa is a genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa.
The genus was separated from the genus Dorisiella by Levine in 1980.[1] Dorisiella was created for a parasite infecting a marine polychaete by Ray in 1930. Levine separated off a number of species that while morphologically similar occurred in vertebrates rather that polychaetes.
The species in this genus infect the gastrointestinal wall of vertebrates.