| NOUN | animal | class Sporozoa, Sporozoa | strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile |
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| Meaning | strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile; includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites. | |
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| Synonym | Sporozoa | |
| Member of | Protozoa, phylum Protozoa | In some classifications considered a superphylum or a subkingdom |
| Members | Acnidosporidia, subclass Acnidosporidia | A subclass of Sporozoa |
| Cnidosporidia, subclass Cnidosporidia | Single-host parasites of lower vertebrates and invertebrates | |
| Telosporidia, subclass Telosporidia | Parasitic sporozoans that form spores containing one or more infective sporozoites | |
| genus Plasmodium | type genus of the family Plasmodiidae | |
| sporozoan | Parasitic spore-forming protozoan | |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
| Spanish | esporozoos | |
| Catalan | esporozoos | |
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