Babesiidae

Translingual

Etymology

From Babesia +‎ -idae (taxonomic suffix).

Proper noun

Babesiidae

1. A taxonomic family within the order Piroplasmida – minute protozoan parasites of mammalian red blood cells that are transmitted from host to host by the bite of a tick intermediate host and cause some destructive diseases of domestic animals.

Hypernyms

• (family): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Chromista - kingdom; Harosa - subkingdom; Halvaria - infrakingdom; Alveolata - superphylum; Miozoa - phylum; Myzozoa - subphylum; Apicomplexa - infraphylum; Sporozoa - superclass; Coccidiomorphea - class; Hematozoa - subclass; Aconoidia - superorder; Piroplasmida - order

Hyponyms

• (family): Babesia, Echinozoon - genera

References

• Babesiidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Babesiidae available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera