Eimeria couesii is an apicomplexan parasite of the genus Eimeria that infects the intestine of the rice rat Oryzomys couesi in Mexico.Kruidenier et al., 1960; Barnard et al., 1971, p. 1294 It has an oocyst residuum and Stieda bodies, structures that are absent in some other Eimeria.Barnard et al., 1974, p. 410
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