Giardia muris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Giardiida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Protozoa Subregnum: Eozoa Infraregnum: Excavata Phylum: Metamonada Subphylum: Trichozoa Superclassis: Eopharyngia Classis: Trepomonadea Subclassis: Diplozoa Ordo: Giardiida

Familia: Octomitidae
Genus: Giardia
Species: G. muris

Name

Giardia muris (Grassi) Kof. & E.B.Christ., Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 30: 54 (15 Nov 1915)

Type host: Microtus arvalis (Pallas, 1778)

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Dimorphus muris Grassi, Gazz. Med. Ital. Lomb. 39: 448 (1879)
• Homotypic
  • Lamblia muris (Grassi) Bensen, Zeitschr. Hyg. Infectionskrankh. 61: 111 (1908)
  • Megastoma entericum Grassi, Gazz. Ospit. 2: 577 (1881), nom. illeg.
  • Giardia enterica (Grassi) Kof., Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 20: 164 (1920), nom. illeg.

References

Primary references

• Grassi, G.B. 1879. Dei protozoi parassiti e specialmente di quelli che sono nell'uomo. Gazzetta medica italiana, Lombardia 39(45): 445–448. Google Books Reference page. 
• Kofoid, C.A. & Christiansen, E.B. 1915. On binary and multiple fission in Giardia muris (Grassi). University of California Publications in Zoology 16: 30–54. BHL Reference page. 
• Kofoid, C.A. 1920. A critical review of the nomenclature of human intestinal flagellates Cercomonas, Chilomastix, Trichomonas, Tetratrichomonas, and Giardia. University of California Publications in Zoology 20: 145–168. BHL Reference page.