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Isospora celata n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the orange-crowned warbler Oreothlypis celata (Say) (Passeriformes: Parulidae) in Mexico

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A new coccidian species (Protista: Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) is described from the orange-crowned warbler Oreothlypis celata (Say) collected in the Nevado de Toluca National Park, Mexico at 3,000 metres above sea level. Isospora celata n. sp. has subspheroidal oöcysts, measuring 28.4 × 26.4 μm, with smooth, bi-layered wall c.1.2 μm thick. Micropyle and polar granule are absent, but oöcyst residuum is present as a compact mass. Sporocysts are ovoidal, 18.2 × 12.8 µm. Stieda body knob-like and sub-Stieda body irregular and barely discernible. Sporocyst residuum is composed of granules of different sizes. Sporozoites are vermiform with one refractile body and a nucleus. This is the third description of an isosporoid coccidian infecting a New World warbler.

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This study was supported by grants from the Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) to B. P. Berto (E-26/110.987/2013) and Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) to M. K. Janczur (3679/2014/CID) & E. Soriano-Vargas (CONACYT CB-2008-103142-Z). We also acknowledge the Institute for Bird Populations and the Biodiversity Research Institute (USA) for donating mist nets and other mist netting and banding material.

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  1. Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), BR-465 km 7, 23897-970, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil

    Bruno Pereira Berto

  2. DIAM-Mexico, Environment for the Americas, Toluca, Mexico

    Juan Pablo Medina

  3. Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados en Salud Animal, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Carretera Toluca-Atlacomulco km 15.5, Toluca, 50200, Mexico City, Mexico

    Celene Salgado-Miranda & Edgardo Soriano-Vargas

  4. Research Group in Behavioral Biology and Conservation, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Toluca, Mexico City, Mexico

    Michele García-Conejo & Mariusz Krzysztof Janczur

  5. Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, Instituto de Veterinária, UFRRJ, BR-465 km 7, 23897-970, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil

    Carlos Wilson Gomes Lopes

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Berto, B.P., Medina, J.P., Salgado-Miranda, C. et al. Isospora celata n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the orange-crowned warbler Oreothlypis celata (Say) (Passeriformes: Parulidae) in Mexico. Syst Parasitol 89, 253–257 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-014-9525-0

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