Eimeria mazzai Yakimoff and Gouseff, 1936.
Synonyms: Eimeria transcaucasica.
Type host: Bufo bufo L. 1758 (Syn. B. vulgaris), European common toad.
Other hosts: None reported to date.
Type locality: ASIA: Azerbajian.
Geographic distribution: ASIA: Azerbajian.
Description of oocyst: Oocyst shape: spheroidal;
number of walls: 2; wall thickness: unknown; wall characteristics: no description;
L x W: 16-18 x 16-18; L/W ratio: ~1.0; M: absent; OR: absent; PG: absent.
Distinctive features of oocyst: none.
Description of sporocysts and sporozoites:
Sporocyst shape: elongate ellipsoidal;
L x W: 6-8 x 4; L/W ratio: not given; SB: not described; SSB: absent; PSB: absent; SR: present;
SR characteristics: small, irregular granular mass between SZ (line drawing);
SZ: comma-shaped with 1 RB at rounded end (line drawing). Distinctive features of sporocyst: none.
Prevalence: Unknown.
Sporulation: Unknown.
Prepatent and patent periods: Unknown.
Site of infection: Unknown.
Materials deposited: None .
Remarks: The description of this species is only marginally useful; it is retained as a valid species only
because modest mensural data for the oocyst and sporocysts and an original line drawing were given. Yakimoff
and Gousseff (1936a) described E. transcaucasica from Bufo bufo; their description is almost identical
to their earlier description of Eimeria mazzai. Thus, E. transcaucasica is considered the same species.