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A new coccidian species (Protozoa: Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) collected from the red warbler Cardellina rubra (Swainson) is reported from the Nevado de Toluca National Park, Mexico. Isospora cardellinae n. sp. has subspherical oöcysts, measuring on average 26.6 × 25.4 μm, with smooth, bi-layered wall, c.1.3 μm thick. Micropyle, oöcyst residuum, and polar granule are absent. Sporocysts are ovoidal, measuring on average 19.0 × 12.0 µm, with a knob-like Stieda body, a trapezoidal sub-Stieda body and sporocyst residuum composed of scattered spherules of different sizes. Sporozoites are vermiform with one refractile body and a nucleus. This is the fourth description of an isosporoid coccidian infecting a New World warbler.
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Biologists Juan Procopio Hernández and Uriel Marín are greatly acknowledged by their support at the field trips. 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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This study was supported by grants from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) to MKJ (3679/2014/CID) and ES-V (CONACYT CB-2008-103142-Z).
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All applicable institutional, national and international guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. Collecting wildlife permit in Mexico provided by SEMARNAT (code SGPA/DGVS/07613/14).
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Salgado-Miranda, C., Medina, J.P., Zepeda-Velázquez, A.P. et al. Isospora cardellinae n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the red warbler Cardellina rubra (Swainson) (Passeriformes: Parulidae) in Mexico. Syst Parasitol 93, 825–830 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-016-9663-7
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