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Description:
Crithidias are monogenetic trypanosomatids possessing an epimastigote and a choanomastigote forms. One anterior thick flagellum emerges from a flagellar pocket with a kinetoplast at the base of the flagellum, central nucleus. Several species are parasitic of the gut of insects. Crithidia luciliae from calliphorid and muscid flies (Giemsa).
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- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Excavates (excavates)
- Discoba (Jakobids)
- Euglenozoa
- Kinetoplastea
- Metakinetoplastina
- Trypanosomatida
- Trypanosomatidae (trypanosomes)
- Leishmaniinae
- Crithidia
- Crithidia luciliae
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