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Three new species of coccidia are described from Marble-throated skink Marmorosphax tricolor from New Caledonia, namely, Isospora bocagei sp. n., Acroeimeria rouxi sp. n., and Choleoeimeria sadlieri sp.n. All species differ markedly from other eimerian coccidia described from scincid hosts. Isospora marmorosphaxi develops extra-nuclearly in small intestine. A. rouxi develops epicitoplasmatically in small intestine. C. sadlieri affects the gall bladder mucosa. Generic affiliation of Eimeria-like coccidia from reptiles is discussed and all taxa (with adequate information on endogenous development available) from scincid hosts are revised and placed into genera Acroeimeria and Choleoeimeria.
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We are deeply indebted to Direction des Resources Naturelles, Province Sud, New Caledonia (especially to Thiery Chaverot) for research permits necessary for fieldwork in New Caledonia. Aaron Bauer kindly provided useful field notes. This study was, in part, supported by Grants No. 524/00/P015, 524/03/D104, and 524/03/H133 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic and Grant No. J16/98: 161700001 of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic; the visit by DM to New Caledonia was supported by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno and by the Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. We are indebted to Merial and Olympus C&S for the generous support. Additional literature cited on the coccidia of scincid hosts can be found at http://biology001.unm.edu/~coccidia/home.html.
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Modrý, D., Jirků, M. Three new species of coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriorina) from the Marble-throated skink, Marmorosphax tricolor Bavay, 1869 (Reptilia: Scincidae), endemic to New Caledonia with a taxonomic revision of Eimeria spp. from scincid hosts. Parasitol Res 99, 419–428 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-005-0106-7
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