Lankesterella sp.

Paperna, Ilan, Keong, Malcolm Soh Chu & May, Charlotte Yap Aye, 2008, Haemosporozoan Parasites Found In Birds In Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sarawak And Java, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (2), pp. 211-243 : 219

Lankesterella sp.

Locality. – Singapore: urban zone, 2001.

Description. – Sporozoite stages of Lankesterella sp. were found, one inside an erythrocyte and one free in the liver smear. The sporozoites (6.0 × 1.2 in size) were recognized by their conspicuous, blue-staining refractile body.

Remarks. – Baker et al. (1997) confirmed early reports of Lainson (1958) and Dissaniake (1967) on the presence of species of Lankesterella in birds, which produced visceral gamogonies, and sporogonies yielding circulating sporozoites. Lankesterella spp. coexists with infections of extra-intestinal merogonic stages of Isospora , also called Atoxoplasma Garnham, 1950 . This led to considerable nomenclatural confusion: denial of the existence of the sporozoite yielding Lankesterella and application of the name Lankesterella to the isosporan visceral infection ( Atoxoplasma ) ( Lainson, 1959; Box, 1970, 1981).