extraordinarily few Sporozoa have been found from the Platyhelminthes as a whole. The find is all the more remarkable as Leptoplana is so commonly used as a type animal. Only a single specimen was ...

Table 1. Summarizing overview of characteristic life cycle events of five evolutionary lineages of the order Piroplasmida (based on Schreeg et al., 2016). In this review we provide a comprehensive ...