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