The Coccidia of Piciformes
(barbets, honeyguides, jacamars, puffbirds, toucans, woodpeckers)

Compiled by
Donald W. Duszynski1, Steve J. Upton2, and Lee Couch1

1Department of Biology, University of New Mexico
2Division of Biology, Kansas State University


Supported by NSF-PEET DEB 9521687

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Updated: 24 January 1999
Comments: eimeria@unm.edu (Duszynski)
or coccidia@ksu.edu (Upton)


Eimeria barbeta Kar, 1944

Host: Megalaima asiatica ( Blue-throated barbet - Capitonidae)
Reference: Chakravarty & Kar 1946; Kar 1944

Eimeria dendrocopi Levine, 1953

non Eimeria lyruri Yakimoff & Gousseff, 1936
Host: Picoides (Dendropicos) major (Great spotted woodpecker - Picidae)
Reference: Levine 1953; Yakimoff & Gousseff 1936

Eimeria forresteri Upton, Ernst, Clubb, & Current, 1984

Host: Ramphastos toco (Toco toucan - Ramphastidae)
Reference: Upton et al. 1984

Eimeria nonbrumpti Levine, 1953

non Eimeria brumpti Yakimoff & Gousseff, 1936
non Eimeria yakisevi (Yakimoff & Gousseff, 1936) Hardcastle, 1943
Host: Picoides (Dendropicos) major (Great spotted woodpecker - Picidae )
Reference: Hardcastle 1943; Levine 1953; Yakimoff & Gousseff 1936

Eimeria vitellini Lainson, Costa, & Shaw, 1990

Host: Ramphastos vitellinus (Channel-billed toucan - Ramphastidae)
Reference: Lainson et al. 1990

Isospora megalaimae Mandal & Chakravarty, 1964

Host: Megalaima haemacephala (Coppersmith barbet - Capitonidae)
Reference: Mandal 1970; Mandal & Chakravarty 1964

Isospora sp. of Boughton, Boughton, & Volk, 1938

Host: Megalaima asiatica (Blue-throated barbet - Capitonidae)
Reference: Boughton et al. 1938

Isospora sp. of Boughton, Boughton, & Volk, 1938

Host: Colaptes auratus (Common flicker - Picidae)
Reference: Boughton et al. 1938

Isospora sp. of Chakravarty & Kar, 1947

non Isospora zosteropis of Chakravarty & Kar, 1947
Host: Megalaima zeylanica (Green barbet - Capitonidae)
Reference: Chakravarty & Kar 1947

Isospora sp. 2 of Galli-Valerio, 1931

non Isospora lacazei (Labbe, 1893) Laveran, 1898
Host: Picus viridis (Green woodpecker - Picidae)
Reference: Galli-Valerio 1931; Laveran 1898

Isospora sp. of Henry, 1932

non Isospora lacazei (Labbe, 1893) Laveran, 1898
Host: Colaptes auratus (Common flicker - Picidae)
Reference: Henry 1932

Isospora sp. of Labbe, 1899br>

non Isospora lacazei (Labbe, 1893) Laveran, 1898
Host: Dendrocopos minor (Lesser spotted woodpecker - Picidae)
Reference: Labbe 1893, 1899; Laveran 1898

Isospora sp. 2 of Sjobring, 1897

non Isospora lacazei (Labbe, 1893) Laveran, 1898
non Isospora communis passerum Sjobring, 1897
Host: Picus viridis (Green woodpecker - Picidae)
Reference: Labbe 1893; Laveran 1898 Sjobring 1897

Isospora sp. 3 of Sjobring, 1897

non Isospora lacazei (Labbe, 1893) Laveran, 1898
non Isospora communis passerum Sjobring, 1897
Host: Jynx torquilla (Eurasian wryneck - Jyngidae)
Reference: Labbe 1893; Laveran 1898 Sjobring 1897

References

Boughton, D.C, Boughton, R.B., and Volk, J. 1938. Avian hosts of the genus Isospora (Coccidiida). The Ohio Journal of Science 38: 149- 163.

Chakravarty, M. and Kar, A.B. 1946. XXVII.-A study on the coccidia of Indian birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society (Edinburgh) B 62: 225-233.

Galli-Valerio, B. 1931. Notes de Parasitologie. Centralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene. I. Abteilung Originale 120: 98-106.

Hardcastle, A.B. 1943. A check-list and host-index of the species of the protozoan genus Eimeria. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 10: 35-69.

Henry, D.P. 1932. Isospora buteonis sp. nov. from the hawk and owl, and notes on Isospora lacazii (Labbe) in birds. University of California Publications in Zoology 37: 291-299.

Kar, A.B. 1944. Observations on Eimeria barbeta n. sp., from the blue-throated barbet, Cyanops asiatica (Lath.). Proceedings of the 31st Indian Science Congress, Calcutta 31: 104-105.

Labbe, A. 1899. Sporozoa. In: Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen, Butschli, O., editor. Verlag von R. Friedlander und Sohn, Berlin. pp. 1-180.

Lainson, R., Costa, A.M., and Shaw, J.J. 1990. Eimeria vitellini n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the brazilian toucan, Rhamphastos vitellinus vitellinus Lichtenstein (Aves: Piciformes: Rhamphastidae). Memoires do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 85: 199-202.

Levine, N.D. 1953. A review of the coccidia from the avian orders Galliformes, Anseriformes and Charadriiformes, with descriptions of three new species. American Midland Naturalist 49: 696-710.

Mandal A.K. 1970. Studies on some aspects of avian coccidia (Protozoa, Sporozoa). Part IV. Occurrence and distribution of coccidian parasites in Indian birds. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 63: 23-39.

Sjobring, N. 1897. Beitrage zur Kenntnis einiger Protozoen. Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene. I. Abteilung Originale 22: 675- 684.

Upton, S.J., Ernst, J.V., Clubb, S.L., and Current, W.L. 1984. Eimeria forresteri n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from Ramphastos toco and a redescription of Isospora graculai from Gracula religiosa. Systematic Parasitology 6: 237-240.

Yakimoff, W.L. and Gousseff, W.-F. 1936. A propos des coccidies des oiseaux sauvages. Annales de Parasitologie humaine et Comparee 14: 449-456.