Such sporozoan infections are usually unresponsive to treatment and diseased fish should be removed from the tank. |
They are generally placed in the sporozoan class Toxoplasmea, although they may more properly be classed as coccidian parasites under the order Eucoccidia. |
Haplosporidian, any protozoan of the sporozoan subclass Haplosporea. |
By far the most common sporozoan intestinal parasite is Cryptosporidium parvum. |
Plasmodium, a genus of parasitic protozoans of the sporozoan subclass Coccidia that are the causative organisms of malaria. |
Others suffer more or less from the attacks of various sporozoan parasites. |