| morphological description of isospora alyousifi nom.n. for i. acanthodactyli alyousif et al-shawa, 1997 (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) infecting acanthodactylus schmidti (sauria: lacertidae) in saudi arabia. | to date, three species of isospora schneider, 1881 have been described from lizards of the genus acanthodactylus wiegmann. two of these, although representing separate species parasitizing two different hosts, acanthodactylus boskianus daudin in egypt and a. schmidti haas in saudi arabia, were described under the name isospora acanthodactyli. the third species is isospora abdallahi modrý, koudela et slapeta, 1998 from a. boskianus in egypt. in the present study, isospora alyousifi nom. n. is pro ... | 2012 | 23327005 |