BioOne.org will be down briefly for maintenance on 17 December 2024 between 18:00-22:00 Pacific Time US. We apologize for any inconvenience.
How to translate text using browser tools
1 June 2013 A New Species of Caryospora (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Accipiter striatus (Aves: Accipitriformes)
Chris T. McAllister, Donald W. Duszynski, Richard D. McKown
Author Affiliations +
Abstract

An injured juvenile sharp-shinned hawk, Accipiter striatus Vieillot, 1807 (Aves: Accipitriformes), housed and treated at the College of Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA, was found to be passing oocysts of an undescribed species of Caryospora in its feces. Sporulated oocysts of Caryospora petersoni n. sp. were subspherical, with a bilayered wall, and they measured 43.1 × 39.8 μm; micropyle, oocyst residuum, and polar granule were absent. Sporocysts were subspherical to spherical, 23.4 × 23.3 μm; Stieda, substieda, and parastieda bodies were absent, but a spherical sporocyst residuum was present as a compact mass, ∼15.1 μm wide, composed of many homogeneous globules. The new species represents the first caryosporan documented from this species of hawk.

Chris T. McAllister, Donald W. Duszynski, and Richard D. McKown "A New Species of Caryospora (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Accipiter striatus (Aves: Accipitriformes)," Journal of Parasitology 99(3), 490-492, (1 June 2013). https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-3228.1
Received: 31 May 2012; Accepted: 1 October 2012; Published: 1 June 2013
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission
Back to Top