Below is an alphabetical list of the coccidia (Eimeriidae) of the world. It will be under constant construction with additions and deletions from this day (24 May 1999) on. This list is intended to be useful for those who are coining new names for the coccidia species they find. For example, if you examine a host animal in Montana, and find a new species of Isospora, you may think about naming your new species Isospora montanensis. However, the name may be preoccupied, and you do not want to add yet another synonym to the literature. Thus, if you are not sure whether or not the name is already in use, please check this alphabetical list. Our list includes the coccidia species names found in Pellérdy (1963, 1965, 1969, 1974) and Levine (1988), and supplements these lists with names these authors missed and with valid names that have been published since their work was completed. In addition, we list species inquirendae following the examples of Wilber et al. (1998) and Duszynski et al. (1999). Eventually, you will be able to click on each name and it will take you to our database and the type host animal from which it was described.
Type
Species: macrocoronata (Lüling 1942) Levine 1977 ( syn. intestinalis
Bel'tenev 1980) gugleri (Wacha 1981) Levine 1985>
Type
Species: paddae (Aragao 1911) Laird 1959
adiei (Aragao 1911) Baker et al.
1972
amadinae (Fantham 1924) Baker et al.
1972
argyae Garnham 1950
avium (Labbé 1894) Baker et al.
1972
butasturis (de Mello 1935) Levine 1982
coccothraustis Corradetti & Scanga 1963
corvi (Baker, Lainson &
Killick-Kendrick 1959) Levine 1982
danilewskii
Zasukhin, Vasina
& Levitanskaya 1957
desseri Levine 1982
lainsoni
(Dissanaike
1967) Levine 1982
liothricis (Laveran & Marullaz
1914) Baker et al. 1972
paulasousai (Correa 1928) Levine 1982
pessoai (Correa 1928) Levine 1982
picumni (Mackerras & Mackerras
1960) Levine 1982
serini (Aragao 1933) Levine 1982
sicalidis (Aragao 1911) Baker et al.
1972
spermesti (Rousselot 1953) Levine
1982
sporophilae (Aragao 1911) Baker et al.
1972
Type
Species: ornata Schneider 1885
alpina Léger 1898
belostomatis Carini 1942
bulini Triffitt, Buckley &
McDonald 1932
caudata Léger 1898
labbei (Léger 1897) Levine 1981
legeri Schellack & Reichenow
1913
ornata Schneider 1885 (syn.
Eimeria nepae Schneider 1887)
schneideri (Bütschli 1882) Schellack
& Reichenow 1913 (syns. Eimeria schneideri Bütschli 1882; B.
légeri Schellack & Reichenow 1913 in part)
spiralis Averinzev 1916
ventricosa (Léger 1898) Levine 1981
Type
Species: simplex Léger 1904
arcayae Volcan & Medrano, 1984
[AVES] Falconiformes: Accipitridae: Buteo magnirostris, B. platypterus
argentati Schwalbach 1959 [AVES]
Charadriiformes: Laridae: Larus argentatus
bengalensis Mandal 1976
bigenetica Wacha & Christiansen
1982
brasiliensis Carini 1932
bubonis Cawthorn & Stockdale
1981 [AVES] Strigiformes: Strigidae: Bubo virginianus
cheloniae Leibovitz, Rebell &
Boucher 1978
cobrae Nandi 1985
colubris Matuschka 1984
corallae Matuschka 1984
demansiae Cannon 1967
dendrelaphis Cannon & Rzepczyk 1974
duszynskii Upton, Current &
Barnard 1984
ernsti Upton, Current &
Barnard 1984
falconis Wetzel & Enigk 1937
[AVES] Falconiformes: Falconidae: Falco peregrinus, F. subbuteo, F.
tinnunculus
gekkonis Chakravarty & Kar 1947
gloriae Pellérdy 1967 [AVES]
Passeriformes: Icteridae: Dives atroviolaceus
henryae (Yakimoff &
Matikaschwaili 1932) Yakimoff & Matschoulsky 1936 [AVES] Strigiformes:
Strigidae: Bubo bubo
hermae Bray 1960
japonicum Matsubayashi 1936
jararacae Carini 1939
jiroveci Cerná 1976 [AVES]
Passeriformes: Strigidae: Erithacus rubecula
kansasensis Upton, Campbell, Weigel
& McKown 1990 [AVES] Falconiformes: Accipitridae: Buteo swainsoni
kutzeri Böer 1982 [AVES]
Falconiformes: Accipitridae: Buteo jamaicensis
lampropeltis Anderson, Duszynski &
Marquardt 1968
legeri Hoare 1933
lindsayi Upton, Campbell, Weigel
& McKown 1990 [AVES] Falconiformes: Accipitridae: Buteo jamaicensis
microti Saxe, Levine & Ivens
1960
najae Matuschka 1982
neofalconis Böer 1982 [AVES]
Falconiformes: Falconidae: Falco biarmicus, F. mexicanus, F. peregrinus, F.
subbuteo, F. tinnunculus
psammophi Bray 1960
simplex Léger 1904
strigis Gottschalk 1972 [AVES]
Strigiformes: Tytonidae: Tyto alba
tremula (Allen 1933) Hoare 1934
[AVES] Falconiformes: Cathartidae: Cathartes aura
undata Schwalbach 1959 [AVES]
Charadriformes: Laridae: Larus argentatus, Lunda cirrhata, Uria aalge aalge
uptoni Lindsay & Blagburn,
1986 [AVES] Falconiformes: Accipitridae: Buteo jamaicensis
weyerae Bray 1960
zuckermanae Bray 1960
Type
Species: glomericola Schneider 1881
angimurinensis
Duszynski &
McAllister 1990 [MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Heteromyidae: Chaetodipus hispidus
ashtabulensis
Ford &
Duszynski 1989 [MAMMALIA] Insectivora: Talpidae: Parascalops breweri
babaulti Phisalix 1924
caryolytica Schaudinn 1902 [MAMMALIA]
Insectivora: Talpidae: Talpa europaea
cayetanensis Ortega, Gilman &
Sterling 1994 [MAMMALIA] Primates: Hominidae: Homo sapiens
cercopitheci
Eberhard,
da Silva, Lilley, and Pieniazek, 1999 [MAMMALIA] Primates: Cercopithecidae: Cercopithecus
aethiops, Colobus guereza, Papio anubis
glomericola Schneider 1881
megacephali Ford & Duszynski 1988
[MAMMALIA] Insectivora: Talpidae: Scalopus aquaticus
niniae Lainson 1965
parascalopi Ford & Duszynski 1989
[MAMMALIA] Insectivora: Talpidae: Parascalops breweri
scinci Phisalix 1924
talpae Pellérdy & Tanyi 1968
[MAMMALIA] Insectivora: Talpidae: Talpa europaea
tropidonoti Phisalix 1928
viperae Phisalix 1923
zamenis 1924
Type
Species: hydatidea
Léger 1898
Type
Species: hoarei (Yakimoff & Gousseeff
1935) Levine 1979
aethiopsaris (Chakravarty & Kar
1947) Levine 1980
arizonensis (Levine, Ivens &
Kruidenier 1955) Levine 1980
bengalensis (Bandyopadhyay & Ray
1982) Levine & Ivens 1987
chakravartyi Ray & Sarkar 1967
emend. Pellérdy 1974) Levine 1980
hareni (Chakravarty & Kar
1944) Levine 1980
harpia (Sinha & Das Gupta
1978) Levine 1981
mandali (Ray & Sarkar 1967)
Levine 1980
passeris (Ray & Sarkar 1967)
Levine 1980
rayi (Bray 1964) Levine 1980
vagabundae (Mandal & Chakravarty
1964) Levine 1980
Type
Species: falciformis (Eimer 1870) Schneider 1875
[MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Muridae: Mus musculus
abdildaevi Dzerzhinsky 1982 [MAMMALIA]
Rodentia: Gliridae: Dryomys nitedula
abidzhanovi Davronov 1973 [MAMMALIA]
Rodentia: Muridae: Rhombomys opimus
ablephari
Cannon 1967
[REPTILIA] Scincidae: Ablepharus boutonii
abramovi
Svanbaev &
Rakhmatullina 1967 [AVES] Anseriformes: Anatidae: Anas platyrhynchos
absheronae Musaev 1970 emend. Musaev
& Mamedova 1981 (syns. E. apsheronica Musaev 1970; E. aemula
Yakimoff 1931; E. faurei [Moussu & Marotel 1902] Martin 1909)
[MAMMALIA] Artiodactyla: Bovidae: Capra hircus, C. ibex
abusalimovi Musaev & Veisov 1965
[MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Gliridae: Dryomys nitedula
abuschevi Veisov 1962 [MAMMALIA]
Rodentia: Muridae: Microtus majori
acanthodactyli
(Phisalix 1930)
Levine & Becker 1933 (syn. Coccidium acanthodactyli Phisalix 1933)
[REPTILIA] Lacertidae: Acanthodactylus scutellatus
accipitris
Schwalbach 1959
[AVES] Falconiformes: Accipiridae: Accipiter nisus
acerinae Pellérdy & Molnár 1971 [OSTEICHTHYS] Perciformes:
Percidae: Acerina cernua
acervulina Tyzzer 1929 (syns. E.
diminuta Fernando & Remmler 1973; E. acervulina var. diminuta
[Fernando & Remler 1973] Long 1974) [AVES] Galliformes: Phasianidae: Gallus
gallus, G. lafayettei
achburunica Musaev & Alieva 1961
[MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Muridae: Meriones libycus
acipenseris (Goussia) Molnar 1986
aculeati Jastrzebski 1984b [OSTEICHTHYS] Gasterosteiformes: Gasterosteus
aculeatus
adaensis Wilber et al., 1994; Junior
synonyms of E. vilasi [MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Sciuridae: Spermophilus
townsendii
adenoeides Moore & Brown 1951
[AVES] Galliformes: Phasianidae: Meleagris gallopavo
adenoides Ermatova, Shausmanov &
Butabaeva 1987
adioryxi Diouf & Toguebaye 1994[OSTEICHTHYS] Beryciformes:
Sargocentron hastatus
adiyamanensis Sayin 1981 [MAMMALIA]
Rodentia: Muridae: Spalax ehrenbergi
adleri Yakimoff & Gousseff
1936 [MAMMALIA] Carnivora: Canidae: Vulpes vulpes
aepyprymni Barker, O'Callaghan &
Beveridge 1988 [MAMMALIA] Marsupialia: Potoroidae: Aepyprymnus rufescens
aeromysis Colley & Mullin 1971
[MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Sciuridae: Aeromys tephromelas
aesculapi
Carini 1933
[REPTILIA] Colubridae: Erythrolamprus aesculapi
aethiospora
Ford
& Duszynski 1989 [MAMMALIA] Insectivora: Talpidae: Parascalops breweri
africana Levine et al. 1959
[MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Muridae: Lophuromys s. sikapusi
africiensis Musaev & Mamedova 1981
[MAMMALIA] Artiodactyla: Bovidae: Capra hircus
agamae (Laveran & Pettit 1910) Reichenow 1921 (syn.
Coccidium agamae Laveran & Pettit 1910) [REPTILIA] Agamidae: Amama
agama colonorum
agouti Matamoros, Velazquez &
Pashov 1991[MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Agoutidae: Agouti paca
agrarii Musaev & Veisov 1965
[MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Muridae: Apodemus agrarius
agrestis Machinsky & Semov 1977
aguti Carini 1935 [MAMMALIA]
Rodentia: Dasyproctidae: Dasyprocta aguti
ahmadi
Samsuddin &
Jasim 1980 [AVES] Charadriiformes: Charadriidae: Vanellus leucurus
ahsata Honess 1942 [MAMMALIA]
Artiodactyla: Bovidae: Ovis c. canadensis, O. aries, O. musimon
ahtanumensis Clark 1970 [REPTILIA]
Phrynosomatidae: Sceloporus occidentalis
aijanae Nukerbaeva, Tleppaeva,
Umurzakov & Vustina 1988
ailuri Agrawal, Ahluwalia, Bhatia
& Chauhan, 1981 [MAMMALIA] Carnivora: Ursidae: Ailurus fulgens
airculensis
Dzerzhinsky
& Kairullaev 1989 [MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Sciuridae: Spermophilus fulvus
(ground squirrel)
akeriana Ismailov & Gaibova 1983
[MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Muridae: Meriones blackleri
akodoni Arcay 1981 [MAMMALIA] Rodentia:
Muridae: nomen nudum
alabamensis Christensen 1941 [MAMMALIA]
Artiodactyla: Bovidae: Bos taurus, B. indicus, Bubalus bubalis
alakuli Rakhmatulina-Batyrshina
& Svanbaev 1972 [AVES] Gruiformes: Rallidae: Fulica atra
albemarlensis
Couch, Stone,
Duszynski, Snell & Snell 1996 [REPTILIA] Tropiduridae: Tropiduris
albemarlensis
albertensis Hair & Mahrt 1970
[MAMMALIA] Carnivora: Ursidae: Ursus americanus
albigulae Levine, Ivens &
Kruidenier 1957 [MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Muridae: Neotoma albigula
alburni (Goussia) Stankovitch 1920 [OSTEICHTHYS]
Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae: Gobio Gobio, Rutilus rutilus, Scardinius
erythrophthalmus
alburuni Yakimoff 1929
alces Arnastauskene 1974
[MAMMALIA] Artiodactyla: Cervidae: Alces alces
alectoreae Ray & Hiregoudar 1959
(syns. E. lyruri Galli-Valerio 1927; E. legionensis Cordero sel
Campillo & Pla Hernandez 1966) [AVES] Galliformes: Phasianidae: Alectoris
graeca
algonquini Chen & Desser 1989 [AMPHIBIA] Ranidae: Rana catesbeiana
alijevi Musaev 1970 (syns. E.
galuozoi Yakimoff & Rastegaieff 1930 in part; E. kandilovi
Musaev 1970; E. parva Kotlán, Mócsy & Vajda 1929) [MAMMALIA]
Artiodactyla: Bovidae: Capra hircus, C. ibex, C. sibirca
alischerica Musaev & Veisov 1965
[MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Muridae: Rattus norvegicus
allactagae Iwanoff 1934 [MAMMALIA]
Rodentia: Dipodidae: Allactaga major, A. elater, A. jaculus
alligatori McAllister & Upton 1990 [REPTILIA] Crocodilians: Alligator
mississippiensis
almaataensis Musaev 1970 (syn. E.
debliecki Douwes 1921 of Svanbaev [1958]) [MAMMALIA] Artiodactyla: Suidae: Sus
scrofa
alpacae Guerrero 1967 [MAMMALIA]
Artiodactyla: Camelidae: Lama glama
alpina Supperer & Kutzer 1961
[MAMMALIA] Artiodactyla: Bovidae: Rupicapra rupicapra
amarali
Pinto 1928
[REPTILIA] Viperidae: Bothrops neuwiedii
ambassi Patnaik & Acharya 1972 [OSTEICHTHYS]
Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae: Barbus ambassis
amburdariana Musaev & Veisov 1962
[MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Muridae: Mesocricetus auratus
ambystomae Saxe 1955 [AMPHIBIA]
Ambystomatidae:
Ambystoma tigrinus, Desmognatha monticola, D. quadramaculata
ameivae
Lainson 1968
[REPTILIA] Teiidae: Ameiva undulata
americana Carvalho 1943 [MAMMALIA]
Lagomorpha: Leporidae: Lepus townsendii campanius
ammonis Musaev 1920 (syn. E.
faurei [Moussu & Marotel 1902] Martin 1909 of Svanbaev [1958])
[MAMMALIA] Artiodactyla: Bovidae: Ovis ammon
amorphospora
Duszynski
& Moore 1986 [MAMMALIA] Insectivora: Talpidae: Urotrichus talpoides
amphisbaeniarum Huntington, Cisper, Smith,
Powell, Parmerlee, & Lathrop 1996 [REPTILIA] Amphisbaenidae: Amphisbaena
manni
amphorae Telford 1997 [REPTILIA]
Colubridae: Tantilla relicta
amreini Pellérdy 1974 (syns. E.
cystisfellae var. americana Amrein 1952 in part; E. noctisaurus
Bovee & Telford 1965 in part) [REPTILIA] Phrynosomatidae: Uta
stansburiana
amudarinica Davronov 1987 [OSTEICHTHYS] Cypriniformes:
Cyprinidae: Pseudorasbora parva, Sarcochilichtys sinensis
amurensis Akhmerov 1959 in Dogiel & Akhmerov 1959
[OSTEICHTHYS] Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae: Pseudorasbora parva,
Sarcochilichtys erythrophthalmus
amydae Roudabush 1937 [REPTILIA] Trionychidae: Amyda
spinifera hartwegi
anatis
Scholtyseck
1955 [AVES] Anseriformes: Anatidae: Anas platyrhynchos
andamanensis Mandal & Nair 1973
[MAMMALIA] Chiroptera: Emballonuridae Taphozous melanopogon
andrewsi Yakimoff & Gousseff
1935 [MAMMALIA] Rodentia: Sciuridae: Sciurus vulgaris