Order Coccidia (Noun)
Meaning
An order in the subclass Telosporidia.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Order_coccidia is an order in the subclass Telosporidia comprising endoparasitic and parasitic apicomplexan protists.
- The taxonomic classification of order_coccidia places it in the class Sporozoea of the phylum Apicomplexa.
- In order_coccidia the parasites that infect vertebrates have a heteroxenous life cycle, requiring two or more host species.
- Some known species in order_coccidia belong to the genus Eimeria which affects vertebrates such as birds and mammals.
- Protists in order_coccidia utilize the host cell for all their nutritional needs as they do not have the ability to produce their own food through photosynthesis.