Talk:Apicomplexa

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[edit] Number of Species

This page should say how many species are found in the phylum. --Savant13 20:03, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

The short answer is we dont know. The best estimates that I know of suggest > 5000 species. DrMicro.

[edit] Motility

The article deceptively suggests that Apicomplexa is nonmotile, which is untrue...most are motile...Anyone up for changing it?...If not I'll pull out a few papers to refresh my memory when I have time Jarwulf 05:56, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Based on this glossary entry, I'd say nonmotility is definitive...? --Renice 19:37, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

apicomplexan: A sporozoan protist that lacks special locomotor organelles but has an apical complex and a spore-forming stage. It is either an intra- or extracellular parasite of animals; a member of the phylum Apicomplexa.

Ah, but this suggests otherwise. --Renice 19:52, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Rhoptries: The osmiophilic rhoptries – as well as the micronemes – are characteristic cytoplasmic inclusions of the motile stages of sporozoans.

[edit] Cryptosporidium

For the record, the sources I'm finding say Cryptosporidium is a coccidia; for example, see:

[edit] Blastocystea

Are Blastocystea Apicomplexa or Chromista? --Kupirijo 10:00, 1 January 2007 (UTC)