
The Biology and Identification of the Coccidia (Apicomplexa) of Turtles of the World
Description
Key Features
- Offers line drawings and photomicrographs of each parasite from each hosts species
- Provides methods of identification and treatment
- Presents a complete historical rendition of all known publications on coccidia (and their closest relatives) from all turtle species on Earth, and evaluates the scientific and scholarly merit of each
- Provides a complete species analysis of the known biology of every coccidian described from turtles
- Reviews the most current taxonomy of turtles and their phylogenetic relationships needed to help assess host-specificity and evaluate what little cross-transmission work is available
Readership
Researchers in biology, parasitology, animal husbandry, diseases of wild and domestic animals, veterinary medicine, faculty members in universities with graduate programs in these areas, colleges of veterinary medicine and agricultures, practicing veterinarians, farmers, students and other individuals involved in 4H (4-H is a youth organization administered by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Turtles are Food, Pets, Lab Animals, and Majestic Creatures
- Coccidia in Turtles: Perpetrators, Symptoms, and Disease
- Chapter 2. Suborder Cryptodira, Hidden-Necked Turtles
- Family Chelydridae, Snapping Turtles, 2 Genera, 4 Species
- Superfamily Testudinoidea
- Family Testudinidae, Tortoises, 15 Genera, 57 Species
- Family Geoemydidae (Bataguridae) Asian River, Leaf & Roofed, & Asian Box Turtles, 19 Genera, 70 Species
- Family Platysternidae, Big-Headed Turtles, 1 Genus, Monotypic
- Superfamily Trionychoidea
- Family Trionychidae, Softshell Turtles, 13 Genera, 30 Species
- Superfamily Kinosternoidea
- Family Kinosternidae, Mud & Musk Turtles, 4 Genera, 25 Species
- Superfamily Chelonioidea
- Chapter 3. Suborder Pleurodira, Side-Necked Turtles
- Family Chelidae, Austro-American Sideneck Turtles, 14 Genera, 52 Species
- Superfamily Pelomedusoidea
- Family Podocnemididae, Madagascan Big Headed, and American Sideneck River Turtles, 3 Genera, 8 Species
- Discussion and Summary
- Chapter 4. Cryptosporidium, Sarcocystis, Toxoplasma in Turtles
- Cryptosporidium in Turtles
- Sarcocystis in Turtles
- Toxoplasma in Turtles
- Chapter 5. Species Inquirendae in Turtles
- Species Inquirendae (28)
- Chapter 6. Discussion and Summary: Order Testudines
- Biodiversity
- Variety of Oocyst Structures and Shape
- Host Specificity
- Pathology
- Epidemiology
- Treatment and Control
- Archiving Biological Specimens
- Closing Remarks
- Tables
- Literature Cited
Product details
- No. of pages: 222
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2014
- Published: August 4, 2014
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128014554
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128013670
About the Authors
Donald Duszynski

Affiliations and Expertise
Johnica Morrow

Affiliations and Expertise
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