Gousseffia

Gousseffia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Apicomplexa
Class: Conoidasida
Order: Eucoccidiorida
Family: Eimeriidae
Genus: Gousseffia
Levine & Ivens, 1979
Species:
G. erinacei
Binomial name
Gousseffia erinacei
(Gousseff, 1937)

Gousseffia is a genus of parasitic alveolates belonging to the phylum Apicomplexa.

This genus was originally named Yakimovella after the parasitologist Yakimoff. Levine in 1980 noted that this genus name was already in use and renamed the genus Gousseffia.

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